Oracle/Sun releases Virtual Box 3 beta with cool gaming level graphics!

Well it has loads of stuff that will make you wonder someday: “Why didn’t we invest in Virtual Box’s OVF strategy to deploy our Cloud desktop/instances?”
Version 3.0 will be a major update. The following major new features were added:

Guest SMP with up to 32 virtual CPUs (VT-x and AMD-V only)
Windows guests: ability to use Direct3D [...]

Intel’s Wind River and its cross-architecture hypervisor

The whole point of the Workbench suite is to insulate application developers from the underlying differences in the embedded chips they pick for whatever gadget they are coming up with while at the same time taking advantage of whatever unique hardware is available for those architectures.
That basically left Wind River with one choice when it [...]

More bare-metal client hypervisors rising like Neocleus

Funny name and still, no matter what you tell me, I think the industry is focusing on the wrong side of business or to put it more correctly, the technological and performance driven innovation should fire up in the Cloud, not in the client device. Sure, the performance will increase but with such fast paced [...]

Citrix “Project Independence”: Mission - Free the global workforce!

This new hypervisor, being developed in collaboration with Intel Corporation, will be productized in an upcoming solution from Citrix code-named “Project Independence.” Combined with XenDesktop and the rest of the Citrix Delivery Center™ product family, Project Independence will transform the way corporate desktops are delivered and managed, giving IT all the security, simplicity and cost [...]

Mobile Devices & Embedded Virtualization: Why porting Xen, KVM or ESX is a bad idea

Great article by Gernot, Co-founder at Open Kernel Labs.

Virtualization has been a major factor in the enterprise space for years; several virtualization providers have become billion-dollar companies. More recently, virtualization has started to become a hot topic in the embedded systems areas. This is demonstrated by recent moves of the dominant providers of virtualization for [...]

Dell partners with Citrix/Intel ‘bare-metal’ client hypervisor deal!

This just came in. Dell quickly made its point clear when it fully certified all Citrix/Intel delivered client boxes with bare-metal hypervisors. This may also come as no surprise since Dell too contributed to Microsoft’s giant Data Center build-ups. Intel is somehow more interested in building and collaborating on the vanilla hypervisor [with Xen] to [...]

Citrix planning ‘bare-metal’ desktop hypervisor!

Citrix Systems is working with Intel to deliver a “bare metal” hypervisor for client PCs, which proponents say could broaden the use of desktop virtualization by overcoming some of the technology’s shortcomings today.
The hypervisor should improve on today’s desktop virtualization by providing better security, because it runs independently of the client OS, and better performance [...]

Virtual Computer: Meet the killer of the “traditional VDI”

I had long suggested in one of my posts on several ESX models when I was playing around with the VMware’s future strategy with some versions of ESX. ESXtreme, ESXlite and ESXstd. ESXlite would have gone directly to the desktop and be built in desktops and mobile that would have been bought by customers of [...]

Linux is a bare metal Hypervisor!

Kevin Lawton, a friend and one of the pioneers on x86 Virtualization, has finally launched his blog and he starts elegantly with:
here’s been a lot of talk about bare-metal hypervisors in the virtualization realm. All academic arguments aside, the reality is that Linux + KVM is a bare-metal hypervisor. You can create a [...]

HP: Virtualization prone to security threats

Visibility is a critical aspect to find vulnerabilities in a system, and without the correct security and management tools, threats can easily gain access through an organisation’s valuable data center, Brindley says. “The area HP focuses on is service automation and visibility. We’ve seen a significant growth of virtualisation within data centres. Businesses have got [...]