Archive for the ‘vm host’ Category

Sun VirtualBox Breaks Five Million Download Mark

Tuesday, June 24th, 2008

Sun VirtualBox Breaks Five Million Download Mark

VirtualBox is available for Solaris, Linux, Mac OS X and another host OS and supports practically any x86 based guest OS !

A multi-everything virtualisation manager !

Tuesday, April 29th, 2008

Lxlabs HyperVM is a multi-platform, multi-tiered, multi-server, multi-virtualization web based application that will allow you to create and manage different Virtual Machines each based on different technologies across machines and platforms.

OpenVZ vs Xen

Tuesday, April 29th, 2008

VPSLink have a useful page comparing their OpenVZ and Xen Hosting Platforms with some great graphics showing where the virtualisation layers are in each solution !

Virtualisation HowTo’s @ howtoforge

Tuesday, April 29th, 2008

The howtoforge has a great set of virtualisation howto’s for Xen, KVM and more !

VMware Server 1.0.5 now available

Monday, April 14th, 2008

VMware Server Version: 1.0.5 | 3/14/08 | Build: 80187 | is now available !

Release Notes

Open Virtual Iron

Monday, April 14th, 2008

Virtual Iron provides enterprise-class software for server virtualization & virtual infrastructure management.

The Virtual Iron product offers comparable capabilities and performance to established proprietary offerings.

In keeping with the GPL, you are welcome to use the Open Virtual Iron sources in whatever way you wish. Please keep in mind that Virtual Iron only supports the binaries shipped with the product for the operating system versions on their supported list.

VirtualBox joins MySQL at Sun

Sunday, April 13th, 2008

VirtualBox product has been quickly established as one of the leading developer desktop virtualization platforms.

Now, as part of the Sun xVM portfolio, VirtualBox will have the support of Sun’s global development community, field resources and partners to make VirtualBox even more compelling to developers and end users, driving greater adoption across a broad set of communities.

VirtualBox enables desktop or laptop PCs running the Windows, Linux, Mac or Solaris operating systems to run multiple, different operating systems side-by-side, switching between them with just a click of the mouse.

Virtuozzo Templates for Plesk

Sunday, March 30th, 2008

Virtuozzo Templates for Plesk

Deploying Plesk using the template technology in Virtuozzo will increase the efficiency and density of your server by making the Plesk footprint smaller, thereby allowing you to maximize your number of customer deployments and optimize your business. Templates also simplify the management of Plesk by allowing rapid deployment and quick upgrades.

The templates technology allows you to use the original OS vendor’s packages and to receive the updated RPM packages from a central repository right after their release without having to wait until they are packaged into templates by Parallels and delivered to you.

Parallels Virtuozzo & Plesk evals

Sunday, March 30th, 2008

Virtuozzo 4.0 represents a major step forward in the manageability, performance, and efficiency of virtualization technologies. This release brings many exciting new features and upgrades to the leading OS virtualization solution including powerful new management tools, improved ease of use, and new business continuity solutions.

Get Plesk free-of-charge, fully functional version, activated for 1-domain and 1-email. To activate Plesk for more than one domain, you must purchase a multiple domain license.

VMware Player 2.0.3 released

Monday, March 17th, 2008

VMware Player is free-of-charge software that enables users to easily run any virtual machine on a PC. VMware Player runs virtual machines created by VMware Workstation, VMware Server, or VMware ESX Server and also supports other virtual machines disk formats.