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Hypervisor, Virtualization Stack, and Device Virtualization Architectures
White Papers The presentation presents an architectural overview of the three pillars of Microsoft Windows virtualization: the hypervisor, the virtualization stack, and device virtualization. This presentation provides an overview of the powerful new...
[November 4, 2006, 0:00]
Automating the Porting of Linux to the VirtualLogix Hypervisor Using Semantic Patches
White Papers This paper considers the use of the automated transformation system Coccinelle to perform the changes required to port several versions of Linux to the VLX hypervisor. Virtualization is a promising technology for running multiple Operating Systems...
[February 2, 2009, 0:00]
TechNet Webcast: Understanding Windows Hypervisor and Virtualization in Windows Server Codenamed "Longhorn" (Level 200)
White Papers This webcast provides a technical overview of the Microsoft Windows hypervisor, a technology that allows more than one operating system to run on the same computer. The Windows hypervisor is the foundation of the Windows virtualization solutions...
[March 15, 2006, 0:01]
Red Hat hypervisor tools to run on Windows only
News Open-source company Red Hat will initially offer its hypervisor management tools for Windows systems only. Paul Cormier, Red Hat's president of products and technologies, told ZDNet UK at a press conference on Wednesday last week that the...
[September 7, 2009, 13:31]
Microsoft to offer unbundled hypervisor
News Virtualisation is a broad term for technology that lets one computer act as many, while the term "hypervisor" refers specifically to a thin layer that runs on a server and allows multiple operating systems to run on the same hardware, handling...
[November 13, 2007, 8:42]
VMware: Not just hypervisor revenue
News In the old days, VMware made its money selling core virtualisation software called a hypervisor that lets a computer run several operating systems simultaneously. Over 80 percent of our revenue comes from outside of our hypervisor today," VMware...
[September 12, 2007, 9:00]
Wind River launches embedded hypervisor
News Wind River has released a hypervisor for embedded systems, a key part of its effort to enable multiple operating systems to run on single or multicore processors. The embedded software specialist, currently in the process of being acquired by...
[June 18, 2009, 12:43]
Red Hat: The hypervisor will be free
News Red Hat is making a kernel-based hypervisor using KVM, developed by its new acquisition, Qumranet. However, Red Hat will continue to support the Xen hypervisor bundled in its Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (RHEL 5) operating system until at least 2013...
[September 10, 2008, 17:51]
Red Hat announces embedded Linux hypervisor
News Linux specialist Red Hat has announced it is developing an embedded hypervisor product that it claims will complement, rather than compete with, its existing virtualisation strategy. Launched on the first day of the company's annual user conference...
[June 19, 2008, 11:14]
Sun names Xen-based hypervisor 'xVM'
News Sun, a long-time participant in the Xen open-source hypervisor project, has named its Solaris-based offshoot "xVM", short for "x86 Virtual Machine". Because Xen is trademarked, we don't want to call the code we've implemented Xen," said Marc...
[September 14, 2007, 17:59]
Microsoft exec rebuts hypervisor security claims
News Senior Microsoft security strategist Steve Riley has used the vendor's TechEd conference in Sydney to rebut claims by a Polish researcher that Microsoft's hypervisor software could be maliciously replaced on PCs without administrators knowing.
[September 5, 2008, 12:51]
A Lightweight Hypervisor for Malware Analysis
White Papers Malicious software is rampant on the Internet and is costing billions of dollars each year. Safe and thorough analysis of malware is key to protecting systems and cleaning those that have already been infected.
[June 20, 2009, 1:21]
VMware patches hypervisor bugs
News A patch is available for a buffer overflow vulnerability in VMware's flagship ESX 3.5 and ESXi 3.5 hypervisors. The flaw and a patch were announced in VMware Security Advisory VMSA-2008-0015 on Thursday.
[September 19, 2008, 16:54]
Beyond the Hypervisor: A Holistic Approach to Developing Next-Generation Data Center Architecture
White Papers As organizations work to evolve their IT infrastructure from a static collection of individual assets into a system capable of rapidly adapting to meet business demands, they have become very interested in the concept of infrastructure...
[June 6, 2009, 1:20]
Solving the Hypervisor Network I/O Bottleneck: Solarflare Virtualization Acceleration
White Papers With increased pressure on IT departments to do more with less, IT is turning to server virtualization to get the most out of their server platforms. The adoption of virtualization technology to address these business conditions in enterprise data...
[March 12, 2008, 0:01]
Citrix: Simple hypervisor key to virtual security
News Chris Mayers, chief security architect for Citrix Systems, claims companies should look for as little functionality in their virtualisation software as possible to improve security.
[April 24, 2008, 10:19]
Citrix offers cut-down XenServer for free
News Citrix on Monday upped competition in the virtualisation market with the announcement that it will provide a version of its XenServer hypervisor for free. Microsoft already offers its own hypervisor, Hyper-V, for free, together with a cut-down...
[February 23, 2009, 13:47]
Microsoft cuts back on virtualisation features
News Microsoft said on Thursday that it is pulling features out of the initial version of its "Viridian" hypervisor to avoid having to delay the virtualisation technology. The company is changing three key features of the hypervisor technology to try to...
[May 11, 2007, 9:36]
Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 R2
Blog With the release of its updated standalone Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 product, Microsoft claims to [finally] have a hypervisor to match that of market leader VMware. Hyper-V Server is essentially a packaging of Microsoft’s Hyper-V hypervisor together...
[September 7, 2009, 19:40]
A Performance Comparison of Commercial Hypervisors
White Papers This paper studies the enterprise readiness of hypervisor-based virtualization products from VMware and XenSource. Using the award-winning VMware ESX Server hypervisor as a de-facto industry benchmark for performance and enterprise readiness, this...
[January 30, 2009, 7:12]
