Coming out of VMworld, I've run into many people who've been convinced that operating systems are becoming an endangered species and that shortly they'll be replaced by virtual machine software. I ...

VMware offers a very comprehensive selection of virtualization products, with Fusion for the Apple Mac and Workstation for the PC. Despite the name difference, these two products offer effectively the ...

Virtualization is an essential tool for Linux users who want to test new distributions, run Windows software, or create safe ...

A prototype virtual operating system will allow researchers to load experiments into supercomputers quickly without having to modify their programs substantially to operate on a specific platform. The ...

This type of virtualization relies on an existing operating system (the host operating system), a third-party virtualization software solution and creation of various guest operating systems.

Server virtualization is one of those technologies that’s simple in concept and profound in its impact on enterprise data centers. What if, instead of running one operating system instance and ...

Editor's Note: Embedded Systems Security aims for a comprehensive, systems view of security: hardware, platform software (such as operating systems and hypervisors), software development process, data ...

Some 64-bit operating systems and virtualization software programs are vulnerable to local privilege escalation attacks when running on Intel processors (CPUs), the U.S. Computer Emergency ...

Wong: Increasing processing efficiency with virtualization techniques is becoming a major topic in embedded-systems design. How does TenAsys see embedded virtualization being employed?

By the mid-1970s, at Lawrence Berkeley Labs in California, Hall, Scherrer & Sventek published “A Virtual Operating System,” CACM September 1980.

There are times this software is deployed when it would have been far more efficient to deploy operating system virtualization and partitioning software.

Renesas announced the R-Car hypervisor in April of 2017 and the new R-Car virtualization support package was developed to help software vendors accelerate their development of R-Car hypervisors.