VMWare CEO Paul Maritz talks about the changing forces caused by virtualization, including the potential to improve security and the shift away from the OS as the center of innovation.

Different virtualization approaches (emulation, hypervisor-based, operating system-level) and their pros and cons are outlined. Details of the OS-level virtualization approach are given, using ...

Details of the OS-level virtualization approach are given, using OpenVZ as an implementation example.

VMware and Citrix, rivals who also see Microsoft's Hyper-V catching on, separately unveil new technologies for taking virtualization to cloud computing.

OpenVZ is a Linux kernel modified to include the OS-level virtualization technology (adapted from SWsoft’s Virtuozzo). It is licensed under GPLv2.

The concept of using OS-level virtualization to deliver software in packages had its start in open-source projects such as Linux-VServer, which evolved into LinuX Containers, or LXC, which in turn ...

Security has been a key area of innovation, with features like Jails, which introduced lightweight OS-level virtualization long before Linux containers became mainstream, and Capsicum, a fine ...

A recent licensing change Apple made to its OS X 10.5 Server release has partners buzzing over the potential doors the vendor may be opening.

Virtualization companies, unwilling to see core products become a mere operating system feature, are signing deals to build them into hardware.

For another, much of the hard work in virtualization isn't producing the low-level software, but rather higher-level management tools to govern containers.

Operating system virtualization software Virtuozzo from SWsoft is growing fastest among all vendors -- 98 percent -- in the hot overall market for virtualization technology, according to industry ...