Linux news

2007 07 12

Simpler Virtualisation Brings Linux to the Windows Faithful

Veeam Releases New Virtualization Tools

This helps Microsoft Windows administrators who enter the VMware ESX Server market and might not be that familiar with Linux command-line entries.

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Run Windows on Linux

Virtualization software allows you to have a primary operating system and then run a second one in a screen on your desktop. In other words, you'll be able to say install Linux, but then run Windows in a screen on your Linux desktop to make use of certain other Windows-based applications.

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Related: XenSource Prepares Latest Virtualization Release

Although one of the more prominent of the virtualization providers, XenSource is not alone in developing open-source virtualization. On March 28, the OpenVX project, based in Herndon, Va., announced its latest operating system server virtualization software for the next stable Linux kernel--2.2.60.

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Xen Xpansion: Ready for Prime Time

Tech Analysis: The open-source Xen virtualization project has moved from the bleeding edge to being deployment-ready.

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The Year of Virtualization

I think that Windows will continue to succumb to Linux in the data center, MySQL and Postgres will continue to win projects that once fell to Oracle and DB/2.

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Virtualization: Linux's killer app

Think about it. Even Microsoft supports running Linux on its Virtual Server product. Why would it do that? Wouldn't an OS partitioning technology, such as that used by OpenVz or Sun Solaris, be more in keeping with the kind of homogeneous environments that Microsoft would like to see? Why would Microsoft invest its resources to support a virtual machine technology that can only open the door to Linux in the datacenter?

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Fedora 7 Xen First Look

Having spent a few days with Fedora 7, I have found that, while still a bit buggy, the updated Xen tools show some real promise.

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