All Posts Tagged With: "VirtualBox"

Sun 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 | 0 comments | Continued

Yahoo Needs Your Virtualization Advice

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Over at
his own blog, Jeremy Zawodny of
Yahoo fame needs your advice on what virtualization software to use.
He has both a Windows machine and a Linux desktop he wants to use to run other virtual machines on.
What would your advice be?
Xen, VirtualBox , Qemu , VMWare? Or something completely different?
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17Apr2008 | Kris Buytaert | 0 comments | Continued

Sun Microsystems To Acquire Parallels For $ 205 Million (Updated)

Sun Microsystems has today announced it has reached an agreement to acquire Parallels (formerly SWsoft) and all of its assets for $ 85 million. The major acquisition had been rumoured to be imminent throughout the course of 2007, but never actually went through, which led mosts analysts to believe the Herndon, VA-based company was heading towards an IPO following in VMware’s footsteps.

1Apr2008 | Robin Wauters | 22 comments | Continued

The Current State of Open Source Virtualization

We’ve started by looking back at a decade of Open Source virtualization, and in this second part of the series we’ll tackle today’s landscape (last updated in March 2008).

26Mar2008 | Kris Buytaert | 1 comment | Continued

Looking Back At A Decade of Open Source Virtualization

A deep dive into the history of open source virtualization, its key players and forgotten protagonists from the early days.

10Mar2008 | Kris Buytaert | 3 comments | Continued

Baseline: 10 Free Virtualization Tools You Should Know

Baseline published an interesting list of 10 free virtualization tools you should know on its website.

28Feb2008 | Robin Wauters | 0 comments | Continued

Techtrob: Virtualization in Linux - Four Software Programs Reviewed

Techtrob.com analyzed four software choices for linux driven virtualization platforms, now that Canonical completely supports the use of Parallels software in Ubuntu Linux. The article compares four virtualization products available for Ubuntu Linux: the free, open source x86 emulator Qemu; the closed-but-free versions of VirtualBox and VMware-Server, and the commercial Parallels Workstation.

25Feb2008 | Robin Wauters | 0 comments | Continued

Sun Aims To Virtualize Web 2.0 Startups. From LAMP to SAMP?

Sun MicroSystems aims to equip the next generation of Internet companies (read: Web 2.0 startups) with its hardware and software and will offer virtualization products to help them keep their costs to a minimum, make their data centers more flexible, and give developers multiple target environments.

18Feb2008 | Robin Wauters | 1 comment | Continued

Sun Acquires innotek, VirtualBox Desktop Virtualization To Extend The Sun xVM platform

Sun Microsystems has just announced , in a surprising move, the acquisition of German desktop virtualization technology provider innotek , makers of the well-known VirtualBox family.

12Feb2008 | Robin Wauters | 3 comments | Continued
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