Virtualization

[jpr]

Nop, didn't use Hiren's boot CD, I just installed Windows from an ISO mounted as a CD-ROM under VirtualBox.

I guess a "regular" driver (mscdex.sys or something like that?) should work...?

[impar]

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Hardware Virtualization: the Nuts and Bolts

First dual-core in 2005, then quad-core in 2007: the multi-core snowball is rolling. The desktop market is still trying to find out how to wield all this power; meanwhile, the server market is eagerly awaiting the octal-cores in 2009. The difference is that the server market has a real killer application, hungry for all that CPU power: virtualization.

[impar]

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Container-Based OS Virtualization

When reading about virtualization, it's often easy to get lost in the masses of possible meanings given to the word by various sources. At AnandTech IT, we've been trying to cut a clear path, attempting to provide our readers with a complete overview of what each technology entails so they are always able to make the right choices for the right situations. Previous articles included overviews of both hypervisor-based virtualization and application virtualization. Following that trend, we now present you with container-based OS virtualization, providing an alternative solution - one that's quite regularly overlooked, despite its merits. We hope it gives you a clear overview of the possibilities this technology offers, as we go in-depth into what makes it tick.

[jpr]

I wouldn't call that virtualization... That's what most low cost shared hosting providers use, it alllows to provide hundreds (or thousands, for that matter, given the necessary hardware resources) of user accounts, isolating mostly file access.

I don't know about the Windows side of things, but under Linux and similar systems (unix/bsd/solaris/etc.), most server configurations are system-wide (unless running everything chrooted), and you don't get much of the benefits of true virtualization (namely server consolidation).

But it does scale very well, indeed, since everything runs at native speed.

[impar]

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A victim of its own success: troubled times ahead for VMware

[Seawolf]

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Ars Technica Guide to Virtualization: Part I

In 2003, Intel announced that they were working on a technology called "Vanderpool" that was aimed at providing hardware-level support for a something called "virtualization." With that announcement, the decades-old concept of virtualization had officially arrived on the technology press radar. But in spite of its long history in computing, as a new buzzword "virtualization" at first smelled ominously similar to terms like "trusted computing" and "convergence." In other words, many folks had a vague notion of what virtualization was, and it from what they could tell it sounded like a decent enough idea, but you got the impression that nobody outside of a few vendors and CIO types was really too excited.

[impar]

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Virtualized Servers for Gamers Too

Yeah, some of the virtualization tech talked about below is pretty dry if you are looking for “fun” news, so I thought we would follow up with gaming servers being virtualized as well. These guys are reporting an 18:1 game server consolidation ratio with huge power savings attached to that.

[impar]

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