Feature
Now and Xen: RHEL 5 Beta Gets Virtual
Linux vendor warms up to the technology but product likely won't ship until 2007.
Read More »More Fun with VMWare
I know, I know. Damn that Perlow. Can‘t he come up with an “On the Desktop” column that doesn’t involve VMWare (http://vmware.com) or some kind of emulation of some kind or another? Well, yes, I could, but then you wouldn’t learn all the cool stuff I’m about to lay on you. Read More »
VMware Player
Need to run Windows and Linux? Try running both at the same time with VMware Player. Read More »
Xen Grows Up
Xen 3.0 provides vastly improved stability and a wealth of new features. Xen 3.0 also supports unmodified operating systems and enterprise hardware. Here’s a look at the latest version-- one that’s ready for production environments. Read More »
Exclusive: Xen Grows Up
Xen 3.0 provides vastly improved stability and a wealth of new features. Xen 3.0 also supports unmodified operating systems and enterprise hardware. Here’s a look at the latest version-- one that’s ready for production environments. Read More »
Linux on Windows with CoLinux
Some of us still need (or want) to use Windows desktops, but that doesn’t mean you have to give up Linux and its many features. CoLinux is an open source project that allows you to run a specially-modified Linux kernel as a Windows application, without the need for virtualization software. Read More »
Xen Has a (Huge) New Fan Club [CNet]
At the LinuxWorld Conference and Expo, numerous companies voiced Xen support in the form of endorsements, programming help and software contributions. Sun Microsystems, Hewlett-Packard, Novell, Red Hat, Intel, Advanced Micro Devices and Voltaire all are involved, but one of the more interesting allies is IBM, which has decades of experience in the area. See the full story at CNet. Read More »
Now and Xen
How would you like to run several operating systems at once on the same physical hardware with virtually no performance overhead - and for free? That's the promise and the purpose of Xen, a relatively new open source project that turns one piece of hardware into many, virtually. If you're looking to cut costs or maximize usage or both, follow the path to Xen. Read More »
Run Linux on Linux
If you need to run multiple distros at the same time, test out new kernels, or just want to test new software in a 'sandbox,' User Mode Linux is perfect for the job. Here's how to get started. Read More »
Linux Virtual Server Clusters
A Linux Virtual Server cluster is a highly-scalable and highly-available network service cluster built on a set of real servers. Here's how they work, and how you can set one up yourself. Read More »
Working Inside the Bochs
Sometimes a single operating system just isn't enough. However impractical, many users keep multiple computers on their desk, sometimes dedicating each computer to a very specific, solitary task. But wasting hardware isn't always necessary. Computers are very flexible machines -- flexible enough that one computer can emulate another. Emulation allows a physical computer to pretend to be another one. Read More »
Emulation, Virtualization, and More
When it comes to running non-Linux software or a second operating system under Linux, many users turn to a commercial solution such as VMWare (http://www. vmware.com), or a full-blown virtual machine, or CodeWeavers' CrossOver (http://www.codeweavers.com/products/ crossover). But the open source world has a lot to offer, too. Read More »
The Soul of a New Virtual Machine:
Join the author of Parrot, Perl 6's new virtual machine, for a hands-on, guided tour of an engine that will eventually let you use C#, Java, Ruby, Perl, and other languages in a single application. Read More »
Too Many Servers
Remember when the hot machine for running Linux was an Intel 486? Or a Pentium III? For most of us, single-chip Intel PCs are still the computers of choice. It's what we play on, what we work on, and what we develop on. Read More »
Putting Linux and Windows on the Same Machine
What if you have only one computer, and you want to be able to run Linux as well as Windows? Well, you can -- through something called dual booting. Dual booting is an either/or proposition. You can't really run Windows and Linux at the same time. This month's column will be of most use to Windows 3.x/95/98 users. If you're running NT, you should purchase the commercial product, Read More »
News
VMware Workstation 5
I've been using VMware Workstation since the first releases of the software. Each time VMware releases a new version, I've found it a bit easier to use and with a few new features that make using it even more pleasant and useful. The VMware Workstation 5 release is no exception.
To test out VMware Workstation 5, I installed it on my AMD 64 machine running Ubuntu Linux ("Hoary Hedgehog"). Note that this review will concentrate only on the Linux version of VMware Workstation.
Read More »IBM Bundles VMware with Blades
IBM blade servers will start shipping with a suite of VMware software including VMware ESX Server and VMware Virtual SMP. The software has a six month trial period, allowing users to give it a test-drive before deciding whether to purchase a license. More on VMware products is available from VMware's site, and information on IBM's Blade products is available on IBM's BladeCenter site. Read More »
Opinion
Cisco, Virtualization, and the Inevitable Hardware Upgrades of 2007
Cisco CEO says virtualization "inevitable."
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Bigger Iron: IBM, Intel Partner on Virtualization
Vendors develop a new benchmark methodology for loading virtual servers and gain insights in sizing systems. Read More »
Virtualization Slowing Server Sales
Gartner sees server volume drop.
Read More »Interview
Jeremy White Interview
Last week, CodeWeavers issued a "Installer Challenge" to improve Wine "until it can run nearly every Windows program."
This sounded promising, so we asked CodeWeavers Founder and CEO Jeremy White to talk to us about the challenge, as well as the state of Wine and CodeWeavers. White had a lot to say about Wine, the state of the Linux desktop and more.
LM: So, first of all, give us a little background on the Installer Challenge.
Yeah, and basically the challenge is that we're trying to take Wine to that next level, we have for the last several years, really focused on a fairly small footprint of applications, making those work well and being glad and hoping that other things would work as well, collateral damage, as I like to call it.
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