All Posts Tagged With: "VirtualBox"
Sun Microsystems Unleashes VirtualBox 3.0, Adds Many Server Virtualization Features
Sun Microsystems today announced a new version of Sun VirtualBox, its cross-platform virtualization software.
1Jul2009 | Robin Wauters | 0 comments | ContinuedOracle Gets Sun xVM, Solaris Zones and Virtualbox
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When Oracle announced that it will be acquiring Sun it didn’t just impact the database market. It’s not just the question of what will happen with MySQL, OpenOffice and Java. The impact on the virtualization market is big as well.
At the moment Sun has a very confusing virtualization offering: they have different flavours, different tools [...]
Sun Releases VirtualBox 2.2, Comes With OVF Support
Sun Microsystems today announced the availability of Sun VirtualBox 2.2, the latest release of its free and open source virtualization software.
10Apr2009 | Robin Wauters | 3 comments | ContinuedSun’s xVM VirtualBox 2.1.2 Comes With Full Support For Windows 7 Beta
Sun has announced the newest version of xVM VirtualBox, which got a significant update. VirtualBox 2.1.2 is the first to fully support the beta version of Windows 7 as a guest or operating system.
26Jan2009 | Robin Wauters | 0 comments | ContinuedSun Microsystems Acquires Q-layer To Expand Cloud Offerings
Sun Microsystems just announced it has acquired Q-layer, a cloud computing company that automates the deployment and management of both public and private clouds. The 35 people from the Q-layer organization, based in Belgium, will become part of Sun’s Cloud Computing business unit.
7Jan2009 | Toon Vanagt | 3 comments | ContinuedVirtualBox 2.0 Hits The Wire
Sun just announced the availability of Sun xVM Virtual Box 2.0. The biggest change in xVM VirtualBox 2.0 is the new support for 64-bit versions of operating systems like Windows Vista and Red Hat Enterprise Linux, in addition to all other major host operating systems.
4Sep2008 | Kris Buytaert | 0 comments | ContinuedShould VMWare Watch Out For VirtualBox?
IT Wire has a good introductory article about VirtualBox. Sadly, their introduction is a bit wrong in the details.
14Aug2008 | Kris Buytaert | 1 comment | ContinuedSun Microsystems Inks Bunch Of New OEM Agreements To Expand xVM VirtualBox Reach
Sun Microsystems today announced new multi-year OEM agreements with Avanquest Software, Q-layer and Zenith InfoTech to expand the reach of Sun xVM VirtualBox.
12Aug2008 | Robin Wauters | 0 comments | ContinuedVirtualization Workloads, a comparative study in Open Source environments
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At the
Ottawa Linux Symposium, Benoit de Lingeris and his team from
Revolution Linux presented their
paper “Virtualization of Linux Server, a comparative study“, mostly the work of Fernando L. Camargos in pursuit of his Masters degree in Computer Science.
They looked at
VirtualBox,
Xen,
KVM,
OpenVZ,
LinuxVServer and KQemu in an 64bit mode for [...]
How to … spend your weekend
Over at UbuntuGeek.com is a fresh HOWTO on installing VirtualBox 1.6 in an Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron setup, including USB Support. Over at the other side of the Linux Distribution Spectrum, Falko Timme at How to Forge documents how to install and use OpenVZ on Centos 5.2.
1Aug2008 | Kris Buytaert | 0 comments | ContinuedSun xVM VirtualBox Downloads Pass The Five Million Mark
Sun Microsystems today announced that Sun xVM VirtualBox, the free and open source desktop virtualization software it acquired by taking over its maker innotek earlier this year, has surpassed five million downloads in just 18 months.
29May2008 | Robin Wauters | 0 comments | ContinuedSun Releases VirtualBox 1.6.0
The folks at Sun Microsystems didn’t hesitate all too long to start fiddling around with VirtualBox after their acquisition of its maker innotek about 3 months ago. The company has just released version 1.6.0, and its changelog neatly tracks what’s new.
5May2008 | Robin Wauters | 1 comment | Continued




