The Apple platform has recently become an active part of our software development platform. I set out to build a virtualized Mac test and development environment in the same way that we have been doing for the Windows and Linux world for some time now. One of things I have quickly discovered is that although [...]
Hak5, a web TV show distributed by Revision3 is currently making short tutorials to virtualization, more specifically on VMware ESX. In the first part of this series they are doing on this topic, Matt Lestock, one of the show’s co-hosts, is describing the setup used at the company that he works for. In part 2, [...]
It’s pretty common knowledge that USB is not supported on the enterprise virtualization platform (VMware’s ESX and Microsoft’s Hyper-V to name the big players). My question is: why not? I posed to this to our VMware rep recently during a “roadmap” discussion and the best answer that I got was that it’s not in their [...]
This free, online, event was brought to my attention and I wanted to share with all of you. It looks like it will be very beneficial and features some great presenters from a diverse set of industry vendors.
You’re invited to attend the free BrightTALK Virtualization Summit from 8-5:30 PDT Nov 4th to engage in a [...]
I have already talked about the new Replay Debugging functionality that is now a part of VMware Workstation 6.5 in my previous article (”Replay Debugging: The Future of Software Development“). I truly do believe that this represents the new way that things will be done in the years to come and we will look back [...]
Virtualization is obviously going to be part of the IT industry for the forseable future. VMware has always had ties to academia as a pioneer in the field, but they recently have taken it a step further by launching govirtual.org. This new website was created specifically for virtualization researchers and academics.
From VMware’s Academic Programs Team:
“Govirtual.org [...]
One of the marks of these types of conferences is the attendee party. VMware truly went over the top on their attendee party this year. held at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway. The event was what I like to call a “3-ring circus” event with about 600 things going on at once. However, it provided [...]