One of the highlights of the past week is the acquisiton of Qumranet by RedHat. Qumranet, the author and main developer of KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine), will join RedHat with both desktop and server virtualization products.
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.
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 [...]
Looks like Microsoft is expanding their desktop virtualization campaign with acquisition of Kidaro: Microsoft Corp. today announced its intended acquisition of Kidaro, a leading provider of desktop virtualization solutions for enterprises. In combining Kidaro’s virtualization technology with its suite of desktop management tools, known as the Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack for Software Assurance, Microsoft will [...]
Kidaro has just announced an enterprise-level disaster recovery solution for virtual desktops. With the Kidaro Desktop DR solution, enterprises can maximize business continuity by distributing corporate-controlled virtual desktops on DVDs, USB drives, or over the Web. Kidaro's virtual desktop platform enables secure employee access to corporate resources and data from their home PCs or recovery [...]
Every day brings more definition to various aspects of desktop virtualization, and that's why I have just launched the Desktop Virtualization glossary. Naturally, it's going to take time to build the glossary up, but even at this early stage any suggestions for the structure or definitions are very welcome .
SWsoft, create of Virtuozzo Containers and Parallels Desktop, has just announced the availability of Parallels Server Beta. From the official Parallels Server Beta announcement: Parallels Server is the first virtualization solution designed to run on Apple hardware, including Mac Pros and Xserves, and the first to run multiple copies of Mac OS X Server v10.5 [...]
