Researchers at Core Security have issued an advisory warning users of a significant security flaw in a number of VMware desktop apps that could allow attackers to gain complete access to the ...

Shrugging off challenges from rival upstarts touting better technology, virtualization leader VMware Inc. today released a free beta version of its software for creating multiple operating systems on ...

Oracle Corp. is rolling out a major update to its free open-source virtualization platform, Oracle VM VirtualBox. Announced today, Oracle VM VirtualBox 7 is a cross-platform application that enables ...

Last week’s LinuxWorld Conference in Boston was the locus of several important announcements. Again, virtualization was front and center. In no particular order: * XenSource announced XenEnterprise.

Operating-system virtualization, often called "containers," hasn't captured the limelight the way virtual machines--which can be thought of as hardware-level virtualization--have. However, they've ...

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 Readiness ...

Stratus Redundant Linux 3.0 and Stratus everRun 8.0 deepen support for open platforms, simplify edge infrastructure management, and deliver up to 30% increase in OS ...

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 ...

Mac users are finding it easier and easier to support Windows applications on their machines. The choices in front of them are numerous and growing. With Apple's Boot Camp not satisfying everyone, ...

Virtualization has not stripped Windows of its relevance, a Microsoft official said in response to VMware CEO Paul Maritz’s argument that operating systems are no longer the center of innovation in ...

Sun Microsystems Inc. is adding an advanced, more powerful 128-bit ZFS file system, new virtualization technologies and the Postgres open-source database to its Solaris 10 Unix operating system, as ...

But what happens when that one “physical” computer is divided up into tens–or perhaps hundreds–of partitions? These “virtual” computers can be created, destroyed and moved around between “real” ...