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One of the hottest new technologies for servers is virtualization, which allows you to install multiple instances of one or more operating systems on one machine.
This chapter will provide an overview of the possibilities that virtualization offers. You'll also learn how to set up Ubuntu Server for virtualization.
VMware Server is a free virtualization product for Windows and Linux servers with enterprise-class support and VirtualCenter management. VMware Server is a robust yet easy to use server virtualization product and is based on proven virtualization technology, which has been used by thousands of customers for more than six years
VMware Server is a free virtualization product for Windows and Linux servers. VMware Server is a robust yet easy to use server virtualization product and is based on proven virtualization technology. Learn how to install configure and use VMware server in openSUSE
Virtualization has certainly changed a lot in the past few years. Not many years ago, virtualization was only used on servers to get maximum performance. Today, is a a fairly common consumer technology with support for advanced graphics.
Fast-forward to 2008, and virtualization has gone from a solution in search of a problem, to an explosive market with an array of real implementations on offer, to a word that's often mentioned in the same sentence with terms like "shakeout" and "consolidation." But whatever the state of "virtualization" as a buzzword, virtualization as a technology is definitely here to stay.
The U.S. Marine Corps plans to take server virtualization software into war -- literally -- as part of an effort to improve the way it deploys IT on the battlefield. "The Marine Corps has always packed stuff up and taken it to the field -- that is not new," said Maj. Carl Brodhun, the USMC's project officer for enterprise virtualization.
Ever since I started using Ubuntu two years back, I have been an avid user of VMware server. It fascinated me to a great extent that I could actually run an OS inside an OS. Recently, I tried out VirtualBox, another virtualization software like VMware server, and I was greatly impressed by it.
I saw this story on a financial site, came over to FSDaily to read about it, and saw nothing. The news originator was characterizing this agreement as a VMware killer. Have I missed some important stories recently which makes this irrelevant?
