Virtualization is a key enabling technology for the modern datacenter. Without virtualization, tricks like load balancing and multitenancy wouldn't be available from datacenters that use commodity x86 ...

Paravirtualization gives organizations more granular control over the computing and storage resources they are consuming than full virtualization, but each has unique advantages. Organizations of all ...

Emulation is what we do when we try to make one system behave like or imitate a different system. We want to take System A (something we already have) and give it the inputs we would normally use for ...

Over the decades, Apple has managed several successful processor and operating system migrations with a combination of emulation and virtualization. Emulation lets a computer run code intended for a ...

A primer on the varieties of virtualization. The first variety — sometimes referred to as native virtualization — occurs when a hypervisor (also called a microkernel) directly virtualizes all host ...

Before the Xen project popped up on my radar three years ago, I’d never heard of paravirtualization. In this technique, an altered version of an operating system redirects privileged operations — the ...

Virtualization has made a lot of progress during the last decade, primarily due to the development of myriad open-source virtual machine hypervisors. This progress has almost eliminated the barriers ...

Over the past few years, virtualization technology has been widely adopted in the enterprise market to make the best use of ever more powerful microprocessors with multiple processing cores.

Shrugging off challenges from rival upstarts touting better technology, virtualization leader VMware Inc. today released a free beta version of its software for creating multiple operating systems on ...