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Posts in the "Virtualization" Category 
Posts about Virtualization in all its forms.
Simon Crosby from Citrix Systems on Cloud Computing
By Dawn M. Foster (54 posts) on November 12, 2009 at 8:00 am
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In this video from the Intel Developer Forum (IDF), Simon Crosby, CTO, Virtualization at Citrix Systems, talks about XenServer, private vs. public cloud solutions, optimization for Intel architectures, benefits of virtualization for IT, and other virtualization technologies. You can watch more of our videos by visiting the open source multimedia page.
Category: Open Source, Virtualization
Interview: Donald Dugger, Kernel Maven
By Dawn M. Foster (54 posts) on November 10, 2009 at 8:00 am
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Donald Dugger has been working on Unix/Linux for many more years than he would care to admit (started on Unix Version 6 back when he worked at Bell Labs). He has been involved in kernel internals for years, porting Unix to the microVax, being instrumental in the implementing Mach on the i386 architecture, porting Mach [...]
Category: Open Source, Virtualization
Red Hat Virtualization Platform for Servers and Clouds
By Dawn M. Foster (54 posts) on November 9, 2009 at 9:55 am
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Last week, Red Hat released Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization for Servers with comprehensive management tools that can be used for everything from servers in small businesses to large cloud computing deployments. This release has two major components: Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisor: A high performance hypervisor using KVM technology designed for Linux and Microsoft Windows virtual [...]
Category: Open Source, Virtualization
Interview: Yaozu (Eddie) Dong, Open Source Virtualization Expert
By Dawn M. Foster (54 posts) on November 5, 2009 at 8:00 am
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Yaozu (Eddie) Dong is a technical lead in the Open Source Technology Center in Shanghai, PRC. He joined Intel in 1998 and had been involved in various embedded system projects from PalmOS to Windows CE to Linux, and several virtualization projects. He received his Bachelors and Masters degrees in Engineering from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, [...]
Category: Open Source, Virtualization
Windows 7 + Intel Core i7 Mobile Processor + 16Gb Memory
By Doug Holland (Intel) (235 posts) on October 21, 2009 at 12:58 pm
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We have only 24 hours left until the General Availability (GA) of Windows 7 and so tomorrow Windows 7 will be in the hands of consumers for the first time. With the release of Windows 7, along with the release of some awesome new processors from Intel, it was time for a new personal notebook and also for a companion netbook [...]
Category: Intel® Atom™ Developer Program, Parallel Programming, Software Engineering, Virtualization
Intel KVM: This is your SOL on Steroids
By Shmuel Gershon (Intel) (21 posts) on October 18, 2009 at 1:13 pm
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Intel AMT lets you connect to your managed computer remotely. SOL lets you connect to its COM port and control selected input/output. Nothing new there, right? In the last IDF, Intel pulled back the curtain on a revolutionary feature: Intel KVM. KVM stands for "Keyboard, Video and Mouse", and it lets you control the, er, keyboard [...]
Category: Cool Software, Manageability, Virtualization
Interview: Wilfred Yu, Open Source Virtualization Engineering Manager
By Dawn M. Foster (54 posts) on October 14, 2009 at 8:00 am
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Wilfred Yu is an engineering manager in the Intel Open Source Technology Center in Santa Clara, California. He joined Intel in 1983 and had been involved in a series of operating system projects for Intel® processors. He currently manages the team that is adding Intel Virtualization Technology to Open source VMMs. He received his Bachelors [...]
Category: Open Source, Virtualization
Red Hat and Microsoft Partner on Virtualization
By Dawn M. Foster (54 posts) on October 13, 2009 at 8:00 am
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Red Hat recently announced that customers can deploy supported server virtualization environments that combine Microsoft and Red Hat server operating systems. This partnership has been in the works since February when they announced their agreement to collaborate on virtualization solutions for customers using both Microsoft and Red Hat operating systems. This virtualization partnership announcement came out [...]
Category: Open Source, Virtualization
Understanding VT-c: Virtualization Technology for Connectivity
By David Ott (Intel) (5 posts) on September 30, 2009 at 5:32 pm
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A number of questions on the Intel Virtualization and Software Development Forum have come up on the topic of VT-c, so perhaps it's time for a blog entry on the subject. Intel Virtualization Technology for Connectivity, or VT-c, is a collection of technologies that improve the performance of network I/O on a virtualized system. [...]
Category: Virtualization
Starting a VM with small disk space - Modifying ESX Swap file location
By Aamir Yunus (Intel) (3 posts) on September 29, 2009 at 10:05 am
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Here is a solution from our Senior Engineers, Kshitij Doshi and Ashok Emani to a particular problem that we encounter every now and then: VMware will allow you to configure a huge amount of DRAM to a VM, but then won't let you start the VM because it does not know where to store bytes [...]
Category: Virtualization
IT manager, your game has evolved: IM3 Unseen Forces has new challenges!
By Shmuel Gershon (Intel) (21 posts) on September 29, 2009 at 7:58 am
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Everybody is playing IT Manager 3: Unseen Forces now :) Ok, not everybody, but there are many tens of thousands of players, competition is high, and a lot of changes were seen in the LeaderBoard. We have talked about this IT game in previous posts (here and here), but much of the renewed interest on the game comes [...]
Category: Cool Software, Intel SW Partner Program, Intel® Software Network 2.0, Manageability, Mobility, Parallel Programming, Software Engineering, Virtualization
IOMMU and BIOS woes...
By Ashok Raj (Intel) (5 posts) on September 17, 2009 at 12:18 pm
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In this weeks blog, i would like to run through some of the BIOS issues we ran into during the enabling program. First realize how much we OS developers love our fellow BIOS developers :-). Most strange problems are caused by BIOS.. so here is a list of what we ran into so far.. there [...]
Category: Open Source, Virtualization
Eucalyptus Releases an Enterprise Edition with Support for VMware Virtualization Technologies
By Dawn M. Foster (54 posts) on September 14, 2009 at 10:33 am
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The intersection of open source and cloud computing has been a very hot topic lately. I've probably talked about cloud computing technologies more than any other single topic here on this blog with recent posts about the new Xen cloud initiative, data and analyst thoughts on open source in the cloud, and more cloud discussions [...]
Category: Open Source, Virtualization
Xen Cloud Platform Initiative
By Dawn M. Foster (54 posts) on September 9, 2009 at 8:00 am
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Xen.org recently announced the Xen Cloud Platform (XCP) initiative, a community effort that provides an open source platform for federated cloud services. According to their press release, "The Xen Cloud Platform will accelerate the use of cloud infrastructure for enterprise customers by providing open source virtual infrastructure technology that makes it easy for service providers [...]
Category: Open Source, Virtualization
SpringSource Strengthens VMware's Cloud Play
By Dawn M. Foster (54 posts) on August 18, 2009 at 8:00 am
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Last week, VMware announced that it was acquiring open source company SpringSource, the driving force behind Spring and Hyperic along with employing key contributors and leaders for other open source projects (Apache Tomcat, Groovy and Grails). This acquisition helps VMware move beyond their current virtualization focus and into enterprise software in the cloud with a [...]