Posts Tagged ‘Sun’

Sun VirtualBox 3.0 released

Posted by Todd on June 30th, 2009 under Sun
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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 [...]

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 [...]