Virtualization news and reviews
I'm going through a rather busy week, so only one thing from the news today: VMware releases Workstation 6.5!
Here are a few links which I enjoyed last week:
Feel free to share more links in the comments, I'm always interested in learning more and helping people share really useful posts!
With the ever-increasing number of exciting changes and news in desktop virtualization space, I think this website needs regular summaries, and they will probably look similar to this post today.
Let me know if you like the format and whether you want me to change or add anything.
VMworld 2008 is happening in Vegas this week, so naturally most of the news are to do with VMware!
Sun Microsystems has announced a full virtualization portfolio last week: Sun xVM. While there is a PDF product description for xVM portfolio, I thought I'd take a minute to mention it here before posting my first impressions next week.
Sun xVM VirtualBox
Finally, I have the time to confirm one of the releases I've been waiting for: VirtualBox, a desktop virtualization by Sun Microsystems, turned 2.0 last week and you can download VirtualBox 2.0 right now!
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.
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: