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Linux Gets Broader Virtualisation Support
News KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine), a relatively new technique relying on hardware-based virtualisation support built into more recent Intel and AMD chips, was introduced into the Linux kernel in December 2006.
[July 23, 2007, 14:52]
New Linux Kernel Expands Virtualisation Support
News KVM normally uses the technique of full virtualisation, which simulates all the underlying hardware necessary to run a given client system, with the support of virtualisation technologies built into AMD and Intel chips.
[July 15, 2008, 15:59]
HP-UX To Get Better Virtualisation Support
News HP will soon update its version of Unix to add support for virtualisation when it is run on Itanium-based servers. The virtualisation feature will be called Virtual Partitions, or vPars. The addition of virtualisation - which has been available on...
[May 27, 2005, 18:15]
AMD Appeals For Virtualisation Support
News AMD wants software developers to catch the wave of Pacifica, its forthcoming virtualisation technology. AMD executives, who handed out the information at the AMD Reviewer's Day in Austin, Texas, said Pacifica is similar enough to virtualisation...
[March 31, 2005, 8:50]
Torvalds Releases Linux 2.6.25
News Linus Torvalds has released the latest version of the "stable" Linux kernel, version 2.6.25, which includes changes to Wi-Fi support, virtualisation, real-time scheduling and file systems. On the virtualisation front, the KVM x86 emulator has been...
[April 21, 2008, 17:16]
Ubuntu Unveils Details Of Future Release
News The Ubuntu Linux project hopes to release a groundbreaking product later this year, which will potentially include support for virtualisation and some mixed 32- and 64-bit architectures. So dream a little about Xen for virtualisation, Xgl/AIGLX and...
[April 20, 2006, 17:30]
Sun Extends Virtualisation To EMC Storage
News Sun says it now offers virtualisation support for EMC Symmetrix DMX 800, 1000, 2000, 3000 and Symmetrix 3000, 5000 and 8000 series storage devices on the StorEdge 9990 system. Storage virtualisation, in which several physical disks appear to be one...
[January 27, 2005, 12:05]
Red Hat Says Enterprise Linux 5.2 Is Greener
News Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.2 includes virtualisation support for bigger systems and more memory architectures. This, like Red Hat's new version, tweaks virtualisation and hardware support. Linux vendors are addressing the issues of energy...
[May 23, 2008, 13:20]
Citrix Readies Virtualisation Upgrade
News Desktop Broker is one of the tools the company is building to show that, through virtualisation, it can support users of all types, including the most power-hungry users, in an environment that comes with the right tools to cover security and...
[October 12, 2006, 12:20]
XenSource Fine-tunes Windows Support
News XenSource has endowed its flagship virtualisation product with better Windows support, the company announced on Monday, but a new version due in June will bring greater changes. Virtualisation, now arriving on mainstream x86 servers, lets a single...
[April 3, 2007, 8:53]
Mac OS X Gets First Open-source Virtualisation Tool
News Sun has released a major update to its open-source desktop virtualisation tool xVM VirtualBox, adding support for Mac OS X and Solaris host operating systems, in addition to other improvements. Software makers such as Parallels have been making Mac...
[May 8, 2008, 16:44]
Novell And Red Hat Spat Over Xen
News Novell's chief technology officer, Markus Rex, has hit back at criticism that the company included an unstable Xen virtualisation environment in its new Linux server, pointing to support from hardware partners.
[August 14, 2006, 9:25]
Intel's VPro Chips Arrive
News The vPro PCs come with Intel's Core 2 Duo processor and the Q965 chipset, which adds support for virtualisation technology and an updated version of Intel's Active Management Technology (AMT). AMT allows IT managers to upload configuration changes...
[September 8, 2006, 9:55]
Intel Bets On Open Source Future
News Xen is also working on support for AMD's virtualisation scheme, code-named Pacifica, which is due next year. At the beginning of this year Intel decided to get behind an open-source project called Xen, the end result of which is to develop a...
[August 8, 2005, 16:45]
Red Hat Moves Xen Closer To The Mainstream
News Among those milestones are test versions of Linux with full Xen support, a customer pilot programme, Red Hat services for technology assessment and migration, a Web site with various educational materials, the Libvirt library of reusable...
[March 15, 2006, 8:10]
Red Hat Linux 5.2 Beta Released
News Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5.2 beta upgrades the core virtualisation hypervisor, Xen, to Xen 3.1.2, and allows support for up to 64 processors per system and up to 512GB of memory per server. Red Hat has released new beta versions of its...
[March 13, 2008, 15:18]
AMD: Quad-core Opteron Faster At Virtualisation
News Intel's Xeon chips were the first to provide some hardware support of virtualisation, but AMD's newest processors now also support it. AMD's quad-core Opteron processor, code-named Barcelona and due in mid-2007, includes features to speed up...
[October 11, 2006, 10:00]
Red Hat Releases Enterprise Linux 5
News Despite the advances made around virtualisation in RHEL 5, Yeaton could not provide specific guidance on the support and pricing around users who choose to run virtual instances of other operating systems such as Windows.
[March 14, 2007, 15:00]
Microsoft Supports Linux, Virtually
News On the virtualisation front, it has already added Linux support in its Virtual Server product. The software maker is announcing a partnership that will make sure its next virtualisation technology can run versions of Linux that have been adapted...
[July 18, 2006, 8:40]
VMware Predicts A Virtualised World
News In separate news, VMware and Intel used the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco to announce plans to build a new virtualisation specification, provide expanded product support and launch a global joint marketing campaign.
[March 8, 2006, 12:35]
