Coming out of VMworld, I've run into many people who've been convinced that operating systems are becoming an endangered species and that shortly they'll be replaced by virtual machine software. I ...

As interesting as virtual client system and virtual server systems are, they're not the panacea that some in the industry present when speaking about their products. Why is it that when I speak to a ...

HexOS is another newcomer to the DIY NAS scene, but takes a page out of Unraid’s playbook. Instead of being free, like ...

This excerpt is from the book, Practical Virtualization Solutions: Virtualization from the Trenches published by Prentice Hall Professional, Oct. 2009, ISBN ...

While these operating systems are a lot of fun to tinker with, many of them have deal-breaking issues, and aren’t worth setting up on a dedicated PC. As someone who spends a lot of time messing around ...

The operating system has long played a critical role in embedded systems. A prime historical purpose of the operating system is to simplify the life of electronic product developers, freeing them to ...

This file type includes high resolution graphics and schematics when applicable. Kim Hartman, Vice President of Sales Can you mix real-time control and Microsoft Windows? The challenge is to preserve ...

Virtualization’s big push to fame was arguably kick-started by VMware’s Workstation product, which allowed individual users to run a bunch of OSes, versions or instances (similar to multiple ...

Operating system virtualization software Virtuozzo from SWsoft is growing fastest among all vendors -- 98 percent -- in the hot overall market for virtualization technology, according to industry ...

Editor’s note: In this, the first of Peter H. Salus’s articles, he explains virtualization with an unusual metaphor, puts it in historical context, and suggests some often-overlooked benefits.

Virtualization software has long been the subject of criticism because of real or perceived security flaws. Over the years there have been numerous virtualization exploits identified and resolved, but ...

Some 64-bit operating systems and virtualization software programs are vulnerable to local privilege escalation attacks when running on Intel processors (CPUs), the U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness ...