Tuesday, February 07, 2006

Short introduction to virtualization techniques

Virtual Machines (VMs): host with arbitrary guest client operating systems through hardware emulation
VMware Server
Sun VirtualBox
Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 R2 limited linux, 32bit only, 1 cpu supported guest

Para-Virtualized Machines: VMM virtual machine monitor
Citrix XenServer XenSource: Enterprise-Grade Open Source Virtualization.
The User-mode Linux Kernel Home Page

Virtualization on the OS Level: kernel virtual partitioning technology
Welcome to OpenVZ — Server Virtualization Open Source Project – OpenVZ – Supported by SWsoft Virtuoso
Linux-VServer - Linux-VServer

Companies push Linux partitioning effort
Breaking News--VMware Gives Away Updated GSX Server for Free
NewsForge | VMware cuts VMware Server price to zero
Virtualisation in the Linux kernel - ZDNet UK Insight

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