Virtualization unlocks new ways to use your PC.

AMD made real its virtualization technology as the chip maker unveiled its "Pacifica" specification, a computer processor design aimed at enhancing virtualization with 64-bit servers and other clients ...

This is the second of a four-part series on block-based storage virtualization technology. In the first story, “Block-level storage virtualization: Reasons to implement it,” we explain the reasons why ...

Computer system virtualization was first introduced in mainframes during the 1960s and 1970s. Although virtualization remained a largely untapped facility during the 1980s and 1990s, computer ...

IT administrators can turn to I/O virtualization to optimize resources and improve VM performance. There are several approaches to virtualizing I/O components in the market, including Intel ...

To help meet the demands of increasingly complex business software, Intel introduced its "VT-x" virtualization technology, letting you run multiple operating systems on a single microprocessor chip.

Indeed linux doesn't require VT-x to run docker. As for VT-d, VT-d is not required on any OS, to run docker. OSX and Windows require VT-x (among perhaps other things), to run docker. OSX requires ...

This excerpt is from the book, Practical Virtualization Solutions: Virtualization from the Trenches published by Prentice Hall Professional, Oct. 2009, ISBN ...

Fewer and fewer IT organizations are asking whether they should virtualize systems. The focus is now on how should they leverage virtualization in their environment. The maturation of virtualization ...

Some new Macs, namely the Mac Pro and the i5/i7 "Arrandale" Macbook Pros, support VT-d in hardware. VT-d enables a VM to access any PCIe-device directly from the VM. This can be extremely fast, up to ...

Virtualization has brought a dramatic level of growth and advancement to technology and business over the years. It transforms physical infrastructure into dedicated, partitioned virtual machines (VM) ...

The new platform lets mobile phone users work with multiple virtual phones at the same time, said Srinivas Krishnamurti, VMware's director of product development management and market development. The ...