The OpenVZ project has announced virtualization support for the Power 64 chip.
“This turned out to be a simple procedure to port our code to the Power 64 processor, which demonstrates the portability of OpenVZ software,” said Kir Kolyshkin, manager of the OpenVZ project. “Unlike hypervisor-based virtualization technology, OpenVZ is extremely easily portable across different […]
Archive for October, 2006
According to EWeek Cisco’s CEO John Chambers is saying that virtualization is inevitable.
“I’m very proud to be a plumber. Pipes will get bigger, faster and more intelligent. We believe that virtualization is going to happen,” Chambers said, explaining that to him, virtualization means a user’s ability to access any application from any screen.
“We need […]
ServerWatch has published an article Server Virtualization Goes Prime Time that looks at the rapid growth that’s being seen in virtualization usage.
Research firm IDC estimates about 750,000 virtual servers were in operation in 2004, and it expects this to rise to more than 5 million by 2009 — a compound annual growth rate of almost […]
According to IDC the market for virtualization software grew 67% in 2005, following up on 65% growth in 2004. The total market grew to $560 million with the biggest gains coming from linux based virtualization solutions. I assume by that they mean things like Xen and Virtual Iron.
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, […]
Enterprise Networking Planet has an interesting article advocating the conversion of hardware appliances into virtual appliances.
To create a virtual appliance – perhaps a firewall, a security gateway or even a router - a virtual server is created and the appliance’s hardened operating system is loaded to create the virtual appliance. This is then loaded with […]
Shawn Morel who works for VMWare has posted some thoughts on wrapping his mind around the concept of virtual appliances and what they mean for the future of software development.
I think virtual machines provide an interesting way of viewing how applications should be packaged for consumers and enterprise alike. Imagine if Oracle developed their next […]
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 […]
Sakai is collaboration and learning environment for education which is now available as a virtual appliance for VMWare.
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