Posts Tagged ‘open source’

Sun has just released an update version to their free, open source desktop virtualization client, VirtualBox. They are saying the major feature is that they now provide support for SMP (multiple CPUs) for their virtual guests! In addition to that, they have improved 3D support (not that it was too shabby before).
Also, remember that this [...]

This month, the Xen hypervisor was named the “Best of Open Source Software (BOSSIE)” award for the category of server virtualization from InfoWorld.  This is a fairly high-profile accolade for Citrix to put in their portfolio.  This is especially so, considering that open-source (Xen) is doing things at a very high level that Microsoft has [...]