Virtualisation – Musings in a wired world

3 December 2007

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… Continue reading

1 November 2007

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,… Continue reading

8 January 2007

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… Continue reading

22 November 2006

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.… Continue reading

17 November 2006

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… Continue reading