In the previous installment of the Virtualization Guide, I talked in general ways about the exculsive hardware access privileges that the OS reserves for itself. Now it's time to nuance that picture a ...

(1) The term may erroneously refer to traditional virtualization methods rather than the technique described below (see virtual machine). (2) A method for splitting a server into multiple partitions ...

Virtualization companies, unwilling to see core products become a mere operating system feature, are signing deals to build them into hardware. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and ...

iCore Software brings OS virtualization to the home client PC and to Windows XP -- making it the first to offer container-based virtualization for the Windows desktop Virtualization has become one of ...

Microsoft has begun taking the wraps off its hush-hush "Drawbridge" application-virtualization project. "Drawbridge" is a Microsoft Research project developed by some of the same folks who helped ...

Mac OS X only offers a few virtualization apps, but the competition is strong. We've chosen Parallels as our favorite thanks to its excellent performance, ease of use, and fantastic Mac-specific ...

The day is near for consumers to be able to virtualize multiple copies of their beloved Mac OS X Leopard Server operating system on top of a single Intel-based Mac machine. The VMware Fusion team ...

A few years ago, I wrote a speculative piece about how off-the-shelf x86 desktop virtualization technology such as VMware, Parallels and Oracle VirtualBox could be used as a means to defend PCs ...

“We want to drive customers to be 100 percent virtualized,” he told attendees at the company’s partner conference this week in Lake Buena Vista, Fla.VDC-OS remains the fabric that will tie together ...