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Novell and Intel speed up virtualised Windows

Novell and Intel develop software that speeds Xen's ability to run Windows as a virtual machine. Read more »

VMware shares secrets in security drive

Virtualisation vendor VMware has quietly begun sharing some of its software secrets with the IT security industry under an unannounced plan to create better ways of securing virtual machines. Read more »

Red Hat: The hypervisor will be free

Linux vendor Red Hat has predicted that virtualisation software will be included in all operating systems for free, while setting out the roles of the two hypervisors it is working on for its own product range. Read more »

Microsoft gives Linux a virtual hug

After years of hoping to crush Linux, Microsoft is trying to show it can get along with its open-source rival. Read more »

Microsoft hastens virtualisation support

Microsoft, faced with virtualisation competition and customer demands, is working to bring some technologies to market sooner than it earlier had said. Read more »

Microsoft moves deeper into virtualisation

Microsoft on Monday in the United States updated its plans for new virtualisation software and said it will expand its lineup through an acquisition. Read more »

Red Hat comes out with Linux 5.2 Beta

Red Hat has released new beta versions of its enterprise and desktop Linux products, with improvements including better virtualisation and clustering features, to make the operating system a more stable platform for server farms. Read more »

Sun has second thoughts about Linux on Solaris

Sun Microsystems is guiding the spotlight away from a once-prominent feature of Solaris 10. Read more »

Novell to ship Xen in next Linux

The next version of Novell's SuSE Linux product, shipping in mid-April, will let users run multiple versions of the operating system simultaneously, the company said this week. Read more »

Linux grows virtually with Xen and lguest

Future versions of Linux will contain broader support for virtualisation after vendors Xen and lguest merged its technologies into the latest version of the Linux kernel. Read more »

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KVM steals virtualisation spotlight

A new open-source virtual-machine project has quickly won Linux allies, but its arrival brings complications. Read more »

10 things you should know about virtualisation

Virtualisation has been a major buzzword in the IT world for a few years. Microsoft has promised that the Hyper-V virtualisation component (formerly called Viridian) will follow within 180 days of the Windows Server 2008 release. Read more »

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