Watching virtualization and virtual appliances with a focus on applications in small business and the Mac
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, […]
RedMonk is looking into how application providers are supporting or not supporting deployment of their applications on virtualization systems and has posted a request for more input. So if you develop an application, do you currently offer support for it running on top of virtualization systems or does it have to be installed on the […]
A couple days ago I posted a link to an article on SearchServerVirtualization.com about the hidden costs of virtualization. I thought it made a lot of good points, and figured I’d take a little different angle to look at some of the less obvious benefits that come from the issues raised in the article.
Power and […]
PC World is running a very short bit about the future of the OS wars and how in the future the OS won’t really matter any more. The PC World article doesn’t really have much in the way of content, but the point is spot on. Owners of Intel Macintoshes with Parallels installed have already […]
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