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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]
Red Hat and Microsoft support mixed virtualisation
Blog Windows Server virtualisation chief Mike Neil said in the statement that the support would let customers "confidently deploy new applications and services". It is now possible to deploy supported virtualisation environments that combine Red Hat...
[October 7, 2009, 17:40]
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]
Why Microsoft Had to Support Linux in Virtualisation
Blog Microsoft is taking this latest move (in the virtualisation market) because they need to compete more completely against market leaders like VMWare. Thus the support noted above. By now, you've probably caught up with the news that (apparently...
[July 21, 2009, 9:13]
Why Microsoft Had to Support Linux in Virtualisation
Blog Comment They have to support GPL projects just so they can keep selling the underlying operating system. Major irony! To keep their business growing they have to put out software under the GPL. Guess what Microsoft?
[July 23, 2009, 10:18]
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]
Microsoft, Red Hat kick off mixed virtualisation
News Microsoft and Red Hat have completed interoperability testing of their operating systems and virtualisation products, and have announced that now they both support mixed virtualisation environments. However, Scott Herold, the lead virtualisation...
[October 8, 2009, 12:19]
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]
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]
Symantec goes virtual with backup
News Symantec announced on Monday the upgrade of its two core Backup Exec products, which now support virtualisation — but on systems from only two suppliers. Symantec's vice president for product management, Pat Hanavan, said that the company was...
[September 15, 2008, 16:57]
Red Hat version 5.3 released
News Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.3 became globally available on Wednesday, with the new enterprise OS featuring virtualisation improvements, support for Intel's Core i7 architecture and inclusion of the Open Java Development Kit from Sun.
[January 21, 2009, 7:30]
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 Enterprise Linux 5 review
Reviews The much-heralded virtualisation features are based on XenSource technology, which in RHEL 5 provides support for both 'para-virtualisation' — where guests are limited to modified Linux implementations (either RHEL 4.5 or 5) — and the ability to...
[April 3, 2007, 13:41]
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]
A better way to migrate virtual machines
Blog VMware has been in business for 10 years, and for most of that time it based its business on the fact that Intel and AMD did not support virtualisation. Although the chip vendors both added virtualisation support to their chips a few years ago...
[September 18, 2008, 9:13]
IBM adds flash to storage virtualisation
News IBM has updated its storage virtualisation product, the SAN Volume Controller, to support solid-state drives. Scheduled for release on 6 November, SAN Volume Controller (SVC) 5.0 is the first to integrate the technology into a storage...
[October 19, 2009, 9:34]
