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 […]
Archive for October, 2006
Published October 3rd, 2006 in Virtual Appliances, Virtualization, VMWare and Open Source. 1 Comment
The home network and computer help podcast has a new episode up covering installation of VMWare server and how to setup virtual appliances for use.
The article the hidden costs of vitualization that I referenced here and here is actually a three part article and the last part was published today. Here’s links to all three parts.
Part 1 - Focused on power, heat and some other management issues.
Part 2 - Focused on networking and virtual machine sprawl.
Part 3 - Focused […]
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 […]
Over on VMBlog, David is reporting that Microsoft has released its first download of what can loosely be considered a virtual appliance. This is a technology preview of Visual Studio, but it’s significant because to this point Windows has never been distributed this way. Of course the machine only works on Windows Virtual PC 2004 […]
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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