Seems like the exact list of differences between VMware ESX and ESXi has been a very popular question lately. If you're interested in all the details, I've got some great links to share: What is VMware ESX server 3i (ESXi) VMware ESX and ESXi comparison – VMware KB article Networking differences between ESX and ESXi [...]

Doing a few experiments with VMware ESX 3.5 today, I've made a typo (twice!) when setting up a password for one of the systems, and this resulted in me locking myself out of ESX server upon the completion of its install. Luckily, there's a rather easy way to change the forgotten password to something new, [...]

I'm pretty sure I have mentioned it in one of the VirtualBox announcement posts: if you have an existing VMware VM disk image with your OS installed in it, you don't even have to convert it when you switch to Sun xVM VirtualBox. Booting VMware VMs with Windows hangs in VirtualBox VirtualBox natively supports VMware [...]

Sun Microsystems has just released the maintenance update to VirtualBox product, so xVM VirtualBox 1.6.2 is available for download. Looks like version 1.6.2 is well worth the upgrade, at least for 64-bit PCs. I'm also happy to see many of Linux and Solaris host-related fixes, the stability of VirtualBox has really improved since version 1.5.

A new release of VMKnoppix – a Linux distro bundled with most of the existing open-source virtualization solutions, has just seen the light – VMKnoppix 5.3.1live CD is ready for download.

Many of us have heard about hardware virtualization, but as far as I can see there is still a lot of confusion around this term and surrounding technologies, so today I've decided to give a really quick intro. Some time in the future, I'll probably cover this topic in detail.

Last week, Sun Microsystems has released the next major update for its recently acquired VirtualBox product – Sun xVM VirtualBox 1.6. What is Sun xVM VirtualBox? VirtualBox is an absolutely free virtualization product for x86 platform. It supports both 32bit and 64bit architectures and can be used in both server and desktop virtualization.

Qumranet has just announced the general availability of its desktop virtualization suite called Solid ICE v4.1. Solid ICE I've been to Qumranet stand at VMworld Europe 2008, and was really impressed with the technology demo.

If you haven't heard about Planet V12n before, it's an initiative by the VMTN to aggregate all the virtualization blogs they can find. There's also a Planet VMware aggregator for VMware-only blogs Last week, Desktop Vitualization blog was added to the Planet V12n list, and I'm really proud to join the rest of great blogs [...]

Last week saw a rather interesting release: a VDDK – Virtual Disk Development Kit by VMware, which seems to be a complete toolset for working with VMware VMDK disk images and coding your own applications which interface with them. Virtual Machine Disk Format (VMDK image specification) is used by many vendors, and so such an [...]