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 ...

VMware offers a very comprehensive selection of virtualization products, with Fusion for the Apple Mac and Workstation for the PC. Despite the name difference, these two products offer effectively the ...

VIRTUALIZATION From a computing perspective, virtualization is the creation of a virtual platform (network, resource, operating system or storage device) that is not an actual, i.e., dedicated or real ...

Virtualization is an essential tool for Linux users who want to test new distributions, run Windows software, or create safe ...

Understanding Virtualization Technology Virtual PC and other virtualization tools, such as VMWare and Oracle's VirtualBox, enable you to run multiple operating systems simultaneously on one machine.

This type of virtualization relies on an existing operating system (the host operating system), a third-party virtualization software solution and creation of various guest operating systems.

Editor's Note: Embedded Systems Security aims for a comprehensive, systems view of security: hardware, platform software (such as operating systems and hypervisors), software development process, data ...

For starters, they use virtualization tools to provide a range of target environments for development and testing (such as different operating systems, OS versions and browsers), and also to ...

By the mid-1970s, at Lawrence Berkeley Labs in California, Hall, Scherrer & Sventek published “A Virtual Operating System,” CACM September 1980.

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 ...

There are times this software is deployed when it would have been far more efficient to deploy operating system virtualization and partitioning software.

Wong: Increasing processing efficiency with virtualization techniques is becoming a major topic in embedded-systems design. How does TenAsys see embedded virtualization being employed?