Virtualisation
Misadventures in Sun’s VirtualBox with Ubuntu and Vista
By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
After reading good things about Sun’s VirtualBox, I decided to download version 1.6.2 two weeks ago to run Ubuntu 8.04 as a virtual machine within Windows Vista. While it worked perfectly at first, the installation of the virtual tools in Windows caused a complete system crash, which I could only fix by doing a System Restore. What happened, and now that VirtualBox has just had a maintenance upgrade to 1.6.4, will I try it again?
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By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
After reading good things about Sun’s VirtualBox, I decided to download version 1.6.2 two weeks ago to run Ubuntu 8.04 as a virtual machine within Windows Vista. While it worked perfectly at first, the installation of the virtual tools in Windows caused a complete system crash, which I could only fix by doing a System Restore. What happened, and now that VirtualBox has just had a maintenance upgrade to 1.6.4, will I try it again?
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Is it a marathon webcast? No, it's IBM's virtual IT conference
By: Stuart Corner
On Wednesday August 6 IBM Australia & New Zealand will stage a day long virtual conference for IT professionals. It's just like a real conference with keynote speakers, multiple streams, an exhibition area and networking opportunities And you even get a lanyard, virtual of course!
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By: Stuart Corner
On Wednesday August 6 IBM Australia & New Zealand will stage a day long virtual conference for IT professionals. It's just like a real conference with keynote speakers, multiple streams, an exhibition area and networking opportunities And you even get a lanyard, virtual of course!
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VMware well entrenched as leader in growing virtualisation market
By: Stuart Corner
A survey by US research firm TheInfoPro (TIP) show VMware firmly entrenched as the lead player in a rapidly growing virtualisation market, but, TIP warns that complacency would be misplaced.
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By: Stuart Corner
A survey by US research firm TheInfoPro (TIP) show VMware firmly entrenched as the lead player in a rapidly growing virtualisation market, but, TIP warns that complacency would be misplaced.
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VMware's Fusion 2.0 boosts Windows and Linux integration with Mac OS X
By: Stephen Withers
VMware has released a new beta of its Fusion 2.0 virtualisation software for Mac OS X, which features improved Mac-Windows integration, multiple snapshots of virtual machines, improved video capabilities and guest support for Mac OS X Server as well as more versions of Linux.
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By: Stephen Withers
VMware has released a new beta of its Fusion 2.0 virtualisation software for Mac OS X, which features improved Mac-Windows integration, multiple snapshots of virtual machines, improved video capabilities and guest support for Mac OS X Server as well as more versions of Linux.
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Virtual Linux, coming to a desktop near you
By: David M Williams
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By: David M Williams
Virtualisation is on the brink of turning operating systems into a commodity item. It may be realistic to see software applications shipped as virtual computer images in the near future. Linux has much to benefit from this, with a repeat of the phenomenal adoption rate it has enjoyed since the ASUS Eee PC.
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VMware gives its ESXi Hypervisor away for free
By: Davey Winder
Virtualisation is certainly one of the hot technologies of the moment, and VMware is certainly at the top of the vendor tree. Today it announced a grand plan to help cement that position in the face of emerging competition from the likes of Microsoft: giving away its number one Hypervisor product for free...
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By: Davey Winder
Virtualisation is certainly one of the hot technologies of the moment, and VMware is certainly at the top of the vendor tree. Today it announced a grand plan to help cement that position in the face of emerging competition from the likes of Microsoft: giving away its number one Hypervisor product for free...
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Symantec opens Virtualisation Solutions Lab in Japan
By: Davey Winder
Symantec has today announced the opening of a new 'Virtualisation Solutions Labs' in Japan as part of an ongoing global virtualisation strategy...
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By: Davey Winder
Symantec has today announced the opening of a new 'Virtualisation Solutions Labs' in Japan as part of an ongoing global virtualisation strategy...
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Virtualisation for the home is a missed opportunity
By: Stan Beer
While enterprises focus on using virtualisation to cut costs through consolidating servers in the data centres, the home and consumer desktop space has been largely ignored. But is it important for home users to have virtualisation on the desktop?
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By: Stan Beer
While enterprises focus on using virtualisation to cut costs through consolidating servers in the data centres, the home and consumer desktop space has been largely ignored. But is it important for home users to have virtualisation on the desktop?
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Virtualisation virgin pitfalls for the bottom line
By: Mike Bantick
There are many good reasons for companies to virtualise environments, but make sure you do your homework, planning and don’t believe everything consultants tell you. A virtualisation case study of how to avoid cost blowouts follows.
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By: Mike Bantick
There are many good reasons for companies to virtualise environments, but make sure you do your homework, planning and don’t believe everything consultants tell you. A virtualisation case study of how to avoid cost blowouts follows.
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VMware goes to university, 40 of them
By: Stuart Corner
Through the Council of Australian University Directors of Information Technology (CAUDIT) more than 40 universities in Australia and New Zealand have implemented VMware's virtualisation technology.
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By: Stuart Corner
Through the Council of Australian University Directors of Information Technology (CAUDIT) more than 40 universities in Australia and New Zealand have implemented VMware's virtualisation technology.
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Virtualisation for profit: sell your spare server capacity
By: Stuart Corner
German company Zimory has launched what it claims to be the world's first online marketplace where organisations can buy and sell processing capacity on their virtualised data centre servers.
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By: Stuart Corner
German company Zimory has launched what it claims to be the world's first online marketplace where organisations can buy and sell processing capacity on their virtualised data centre servers.
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VMware blames Apple for Fusion corruption
By: Stephen Withers
A bug in Mac OS X can cause loss of data in VMware Fusion virtual machines, company officials have warned. Fusion is VMware's virtualisation product for Mac OS X.
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By: Stephen Withers
A bug in Mac OS X can cause loss of data in VMware Fusion virtual machines, company officials have warned. Fusion is VMware's virtualisation product for Mac OS X.
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Citrix announces “virtual machines on any hypervisor” project
By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Citrix, the newest player to enter the hypervisor space when it acquired XenSource in October 2007, has unveiled “Project Kensho”, designed to make virtual machines portable across the major hypervisor platforms, including XenServer from Citrix, VMware's ESX and Microsoft's recently released Hyper-V.
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By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Citrix, the newest player to enter the hypervisor space when it acquired XenSource in October 2007, has unveiled “Project Kensho”, designed to make virtual machines portable across the major hypervisor platforms, including XenServer from Citrix, VMware's ESX and Microsoft's recently released Hyper-V.
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Will hypervisors make Ubuntu and other Linux operating systems obsolete?
By: David M Williams
Computing is on the verge of a major paradigm shift with the modern rise in prominence of virtualisation. Fuelled by big corporates interested in the consolidation and energy saving potentials, improvements in virtualisation have hit the point where Linux could be a casualty.
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By: David M Williams
Computing is on the verge of a major paradigm shift with the modern rise in prominence of virtualisation. Fuelled by big corporates interested in the consolidation and energy saving potentials, improvements in virtualisation have hit the point where Linux could be a casualty.
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Windows will be killed by virtual appliances: VMware exec
By: Stan Beer
Large commercial operating systems, including Microsoft Windows, will no longer exist within five to ten years, according to a senior VMware executive. Instead there will only be very thin open source operating systems supporting virtual appliances.
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By: Stan Beer
Large commercial operating systems, including Microsoft Windows, will no longer exist within five to ten years, according to a senior VMware executive. Instead there will only be very thin open source operating systems supporting virtual appliances.
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Microsoft has troubled road ahead with virtualisation
By: Stan Beer
According to tech market analyst firm Ovum, Microsoft is in serious damage control over the huge technology gulf it needs to bridge in the virtualisation space. The problem for Microsoft is that market leader VMware is so far ahead of it in its hypervisor software and associated management tools, that it could even threaten the Windows revenue.
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By: Stan Beer
According to tech market analyst firm Ovum, Microsoft is in serious damage control over the huge technology gulf it needs to bridge in the virtualisation space. The problem for Microsoft is that market leader VMware is so far ahead of it in its hypervisor software and associated management tools, that it could even threaten the Windows revenue.
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Linux based virtualisation – the way to save money and go green
By: David M Williams
Virtualisation is a technology that can work wonders: provide a testing environment, enhance your processing power, consolidate your computing resources, decrease running costs, preserve legacy apps and more! Here’s how virtualisation can benefit you and why the Linux route really beats out the competition.
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By: David M Williams
Virtualisation is a technology that can work wonders: provide a testing environment, enhance your processing power, consolidate your computing resources, decrease running costs, preserve legacy apps and more! Here’s how virtualisation can benefit you and why the Linux route really beats out the competition.
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VMware strikes OEM deal to grow China business
By: Stuart Corner
VMware has struck an OEM agreement with China's leading server brand, Inspur, to help push uptake of VMware virtualisation in China.
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By: Stuart Corner
VMware has struck an OEM agreement with China's leading server brand, Inspur, to help push uptake of VMware virtualisation in China.
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