Virtualization is no longer merely the realm of the hypervisor and its virtual machines. The microvisor and its containers are firmly a part of virtualization today, and this isn't going to change.

The increased use of software virtualization in embedded systems is enabling additional use of open-source operating systems (OSes) and applications. The notion of providing a virtualized interface to ...

Wind River on Tuesday announced the availability of a high-performance Type-1 hypervisor as the latest addition to its VxWorks product portfolio. The Wind River Hypervisor Multicore Software Solution ...

I recall teaching a college class in operating systems, when well into the class, thinking I was getting the points across, a few of the students stopped the class and asked “Yes, but what really is ...

Real-time hypervisors — the central technology for workload consolidation — enable the safe execution of multiple workloads on a single hardware platform. How workload consolidation reduces costs, ...

Recently, someone who is relatively new to Hyper-V e-mailed me to ask two thought-provoking questions. The first was whether or not it is true that Hyper-V virtual machines (VMs) have direct hardware ...

VMware on Monday unveiled the latest version in its ESX Server line at its VMworld 2007 conference, held this week in San Francisco. The next-generation thin hypervisor, VMware ESX Server 3i, has the ...