Oracle’s VM – Does it really matter?

Oracle have now jumped on the virtualization bandwagon and launched their own VMM based on the Open Source XEN hypervisor. There seems to be a fair amount of confusion around Oracle’s support policy running within a VM environment as noted here Oracle (further) clarifies its support policy for VMware.
But does it really matter?
Well I [...]

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ESX 3i hosted in vmware workstation

Well thanks to all those articles out the net I now have my ESX3i server picked up at vmworld running nicely inside vmware workstation. Next step is to get even more esoteric and load up a VM within a VM, that really makes you want to step back and reassess what you are doing – [...]

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Hardware Virtualization – It’s Starting

Just noticed today from a link David Marshall’s VMBlog site that Hitachi now have a blade based server platform with virtualisation built into the hardware so how long before IBM, HP et al follow suit.
This is what I talked about in November and makes incredible sense for the hardware vendors since they intimately understand their [...]

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What will happen to virtualization?

Following on from my previous entry and these two items:-

Q&A: VMware co-founder Mendel Rosenblum
Operating Systems never did exist, and the ones we have are doomed…

This has really made me think as to where virtualization will lead us. It either has to become the OS, and VMware already state that ESX server has millions of lines [...]

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What is an OS?

Gee nearly 2 months since my last post (note to self: post more!)
This article by Diane Green of VMware made me think again about how you actually define what constitutes an operating system. (This also goes back to a question I asked Mendel Rosenblum at TSX in Orlando).
Looking at Wikipedia an operating system is defined [...]

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