Hosted Virtual Desktop is one of the latest directions in desktop virtualization. Instead of more traditional approaches when you create virtual environments on your physical desktop or within virtual infrastructure deployed in your datacentre, Hosted Virtual Desktop offers you a refreshing alternative: host your virtual desktops in a secure cloud of a trusted provider. Today [...]
PALO ALTO, Calif., December 21, 2009 — VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW), the global leader in virtualization solutions from the desktop through the datacenter and to the cloud, today announced independent research convincingly proves that VMware customers are drastically lowering operational expenditures (OpEx) with VMware solutions. VMware vSphere™ and the VMware vCenter™ Product Family lower the [...]
Just getting around to have a look at VirtualBox 3.1, which is yet another major update to the great free desktop virtualization from Sun Microsystems.
Top 3 things to try in VirtualBox 3.1
Here are the top 3 things I personally think VirtualBox 3.1 will be popular for:
Teleportation – a new term coined by VirtualBox team for [...]
Right on time, the next major VirtualBox version is released – VirtualBox 3.0.0!
Major changes in VirtualBox 3.0
The two major improvements in VirtualBox 3.0 can be summed up like this:
multi-processor VMs – guest SMP with up to 32 virtual CPUs (VT-x and AMD-V only)
graphics improvements: Direct3D 8/9 (Windows guests only) and OpenGL 2.0 (Windows, Linux and [...]
Another update for VirtualBox was released yesterday: VirtualBox 2.2.
OpenGL for Linux and Solaris guests
If you remember, 3D acceleration was introduced for Windows XP guests in VirtualBox 2.1, and now similar functionality had been ported for Linux and Solaris VMs. A quick experiment shows almost 4x performance improvement for 3D between VirtualBox 2.1.2 and VirtualBox 2.2 [...]
I'm not sure if it's part of the official documentation to VMware Server, but seeing as a few people failed to connect to their VMware Server 2.x using Infrastructure Client, I thought I'd explain how exactly this can be done.
Why use Infrastructure Client to manage VMware Server
There are three reasons I can think of:
Web-based administration [...]
I really like managing VMware ESX servers through VMware Infrastructure Client (using 2.5 version at the moment), but there's one little thing which really annoys me: most of VM-specific confirmations are asked with dialogue windows which don't mention the name of the VM they apply to.
For example, if I right-click the VM and decide to [...]
January 21st saw the release of 2.1.2 update of a popular desktop virtualization solution – xVM VirtualBox.
As usual, there had been numerous bugfixes and performance improvements, and among the new features came one of the most anticipated features – support for Windows 7 VMs.
Frankly, I am surprised as how well Win7 performed in a VM [...]
Hi all, just wanted to announce a new section on this website: Desktop Virtualization Solutions.
As you have noticed, I usually revisit various software solutions to confirm most recent developments and share the news with the community. From now on, I'll be maintaining the solutions page which will help anyone to navigate the options we currently [...]
Another major release of Sun xVM VirtualBox, the 2.1.0 version, is now available for download.
From the list of major improvements, I'd like to highlight comment a few.
