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Posts in the "Virtualization" Category 
Posts about Virtualization in all its forms.
Interview: Yaozu (Eddie) Dong, Open Source Virtualization Expert
By Dawn M. Foster (47 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) (233 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 Prog. & Multi-Core, 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 (47 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 (47 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 Prog. & Multi-Core, 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 (47 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 (47 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 (47 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 [...]
Category: Open Source, Virtualization
Virtualization Trends and Open Source
By Dawn M. Foster (47 posts) on August 3, 2009 at 5:23 pm
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With Gartner putting virtualization in the number 1 spot of their Top 10 Strategic Technologies for 2009, virtualization has been getting quite a bit of attention. I tend to think about server virtualization, which is where most of the buzz has been, but part of Gartner's reason for putting it at the top of the [...]
Category: Open Source, Virtualization
Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V - Importing Virtual Machines
By Doug Holland (Intel) (233 posts) on July 28, 2009 at 10:13 am
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With the release to manufacturing of Windows Server 2008 R2 you may find yourself wanting to move virtual machines from Hyper-V within Windows Server 2008 to the Hyper-V within Windows Server 2008 R2. You'll begin by exporting the virtual machines as described within my previous blog post, Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V Import and Export. With Windows Server [...]
Category: Parallel Prog. & Multi-Core, Software Engineering, Virtualization
Ready.Set.7.- Intel and Windows 7
By Doug Holland (Intel) (233 posts) on July 13, 2009 at 8:42 pm
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After receiving an e-mail from Rafael Rivera today, I discovered that one of my previous blog posts, entitled Windows 7 'Incredibly Stable,' Intel Expert Says, was featured in a video on the Microsoft Showcase site. Within the video, Renee James, CVP & GM, Software and Services Group, Intel shares her thoughts on Windows 7 and how [...]