Watching virtualization and virtual appliances with a focus on applications in small business and the Mac
Sun is doing a lot of interesting work with Solaris to provide options for partitioning servers. This article on ZDnet provides a brief overview of a number of new technologies they’ll be introducing over the next year or so.
First up is a new virtualization mechanism for UltraSparc T1 based systems.
The technology, called logical domains, or […]
Baynote has announced that their content search engine is now available as a downloadable virtual appliance.
Virtual Iron has released version 3.0 of their virtualization platform.
A 15 user version of Sourceforge Enterprise is available for free download as a VMWare virtual appliance. Sourceforge is perfect example of a system where installation is dramatically simplified by using […]
Here are a few sources of free virtual machine/virtual appliance images. Some of these are sources of true virtual appliances and some are just virtual machines with an OS pre-installed.
Xen-get - Free virtual machine images for Xen. http://xen-get.org/. Most of the major free Linux distributions are available pre-installed. These are actually just file system images, […]
The Canned OS Project has cooked up a new LAMP virtual appliance intended to be easy enough for your grandma to use. It might be a stretch that your grandma could really use this, mine certainly couldn’t, but ease of use is what appliances are really supposed to deliver and that’s definitely not always the […]
The Tribox asterisk virtual appliance is intended to make it easy to get an Asterisk Voice over IP (VOIP) PBX up and running. Compared to the typical virtual appliance, getting this one running is a bit of work, but compared to what it would take to install all the included components from scratch it’s a […]
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