From Network World Virtual appliance make OS … irrelevant?
Virtual appliances give vendors the ability to pre-tune and configure the operating system with the minimal set of components needed to run the application. The end result: a more secure, smaller and better tuned operating system and an application installation experience that is as smooth as possible.
If […]
Archive for November, 2006
Yesterday I posted some infomation on how to go about converting a VMWare virtual appliance from VMWare to parallels. Today I wanted to follow that up, by making available a few appliances that are ready to run with Parallels.
The JumpBox appliance was designed for Parallels and the rPath appliances were converted to work easily with […]
From watching the search queries for this site I’m seeing a fair number of people looking for ways to convert a VMWare virtual appliance to run under Parallels. Since I do actually know how to do this, I figured I might provide a little help. There are a number of variables that go into making […]
From Virtual Build Appliances
Let me be clear about this: this is the way that software will be distributed. Virtualization solutions like this (be it VMWare or Xen) will allow us to leave the current mess of software dependencies behind. No worrying about target Operating systems, their versions, their current state of configuration, or (for Windows […]
hObbel is reporting on efforts to convert to VMware Infrastructure 3 including how they went about converting one of their domino servers.
We decided to virtualize one of our main Lotus Domino servers, and as we all know email is definitely business critical and significant downtime is really not an option. The sheer size of our […]
From Web Host Industry Review, Virtualization Slows Server Boom
Gartner says despite the numbers, the server market is still growing, but at a slower rate because of the increasing use of virtualized servers. The firm expects to see a significant impact from virtualization technology on server sales over the next five years, especially with regard to […]
Ben Metcalfe has interesting post looking at the costs around Amazon’s new utility computing services S3 and EC2.
It’s touted as being an economical platform way to run your start-up/company/website/whatever from as it makes use of the space capacity Amazon owns from it’s e-commerce platform
These are very much on my radar as well. The […]
From Computerworld Virtualization dangers and how to avoid them.
At this fall’s Infrastructure Management World conference, half of the conference goers surveyed said they are or will employ server virtualization (see story). Meanwhile, a leading virtualization vendor estimates that more than 90% of virtualized and consolidated IT infrastructure are in production environments, and some organizations are […]
Ilya Baimetov over on the Virtuozzo blog is writing about how VMWare is looking to start a new OS war. This is something I definitely agree with, there is a new OS war brewing, but Ilya doesn’t seen to quite understand what’s really going on. He says:
This new OS war will have negative effect on […]
This is really cool to see, the software that runs the One Laptop Per Child system is being made available as a Virtual Appliance. I doubt there’s much value in this without the hardware, but it might be useful for development and it’s certainly useful to simply check out what they’re doing on […]
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