Posts Tagged ‘Sun’

Microsoft Revisits Virtual Licensing

Posted by Ryan on August 19th, 2008 under Headlines, Hyper-V, Microsoft
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Microsoft announced today that it will eliminate its licensing restrictions that prevented customers from being able to move its virtual applications to a different virtual server more than once every 90 days.  This is important as the world moves closer and closer to being hardware agnostic.  Prior to today, it was technically neccessary for administrators [...]

Sun xVM Server Coming Soon!

Posted by Todd on August 14th, 2008 under Headlines, Sun
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I just read an article that says Sun’s server virtualization product is close to being released! We wrote an article a few months back about their desktop virtualization product (VirtualBox) and followed up with a review on it (in comment #1). We were fairly impressed by their desktop product, especially considering it is free and [...]

VirtualBox 1.6 Released

Posted by Todd on May 5th, 2008 under Sun
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VirtualBox 1.6 was released on May 2, 2008.
VirtualBox is an open source virtualization solution by Sun. This new release added a lot of new features an bug fixes. It supports upto 32 virtual SATA drives per guest OS, the first virtualization solution to bring such support. This solution works on Mac OS X, Linux/Unix, and [...]