November 7, 2007
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Quick, name some virtualization programs that run on Linux. Time’s up. If you’re like most people, you probably named VMware or Xen first. Many of you probably know of one or more of the following: Parallels, QEMU, KVM, Virtuozzo and … Continue reading
August 15, 2007
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Citrix buying XenSource is the best thing that could happen to the company behind the popular open-source virtualization program Xen, and it’s the worst thing that could happen to VMware. It seems like only yesterday that I was saying VMwares … Continue reading
June 18, 2007
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Novell Inc. claims it will become the first vendor to offer a supported solution for Xen virtual machine guests, with its release next month of the SUSE Linux Enterprise Virtual Machine Driver Pack. This is a bundle of Xen-compatible paravirtualized … Continue reading
February 12, 2007
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Although Microsoft and Novell are collaborating on virtualization to enable Windows Server to run on SUSE Linux, and vice-versa, Novell and Intel have advanced toward that goal with the release of paravirtualized network and block device drivers that allow Windows … Continue reading
February 5, 2007
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In a message entitled, “Super Kernel Sunday!” to the LKML (Linux Kernel Mailing List), Linus Torvalds announced news far more important than the Colts beating the Bears — to serious Linux users, anyway. The newest stable version of the Linux … Continue reading
February 1, 2007
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When Novell and Microsoft announced their unlikely partnership, a part of the arrangement that got little attention at the time was that they’d create a joint research facility, where both company’s technical experts would collaborate on new joint software solutions. … Continue reading