I recall teaching a college class in operating systems, when well into the class, thinking I was getting the points across, a few of the students stopped the class and asked “Yes, but what really is ...

The increased use of software virtualization in embedded systems is enabling additional use of open-source operating systems (OSes) and applications. The notion of providing a virtualized interface to ...

Virtualization, hypervisors, and separation kernels have generated considerable buzz in both the enterprise and embedded marketplaces. In the embedded world, many of these technologies have been ...

Real-time hypervisors — the central technology for workload consolidation — enable the safe execution of multiple workloads ...

As agencies begin to reap the consolidation benefits of virtualizing their server environments, a new wave of capabilities available now or soon to be released can enhance and manage virtualization ...

Shortly after The Virtualization Procrastinators appeared in Computerworld last week I was contacted by Jim Ni, Microsoft’s group manager for server virtualization. He wanted to clarify a point in the ...

Like original offerings from market pioneer VMware and others, Microsoft's current server virtualisation product, Virtual Server 2005, is a hosted solution, designed to run as an application on top of ...

There are two kinds of virtual machine managers, but for servers, data centers, and clouds there's only one that matters: Bare metal hypervisors Once upon a time, there was nothing but native, or bare ...

Recently, someone who is relatively new to Hyper-V e-mailed me to ask two thought-provoking questions. The first was whether or not it is true that Hyper-V virtual machines (VMs) have direct hardware ...