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- VirtualBoxVMs and RDPWe've been considering a similar VDI solution for our schools computer labs. (VM the xp/vista os and use thin clients to RDP to the VMed OSs) The main problem I'm run across is with streaming video over RDP doesn't work so well, which will be a problem for...
- Tags: Web site development, desktop virtualization, Web technology, Digital video, Corporate communications, RDP, VMware Inc., innotek VirtualBox
- Discussion threads 2008-09-25
- VirtualBox
- I'm once again soliciting thoughts on virtualization from ed tech readers or anyone else who wants to weigh in for that matter. I found a nice walkthrough yesterday on running VBoxHeadless on an Ubuntu server to deliver virtual machines via RDP. VBoxHeadless is a version of VirtualBox designed,...
- Tags: Innotek VirtualBox, Ubuntu, VBoxHeadless, Desktop Virtualization, Servers, Hardware, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-09-25
- Sun xVM VirtualBox 2.0
- Sun xVM VirtualBox 2.0Re: How else are they supposed to measure it?How about a survey ?That's a good questionIt would seem that finding a way to allow a neutral, outside party to verify download counts would be a step in the right direction.Dan KHow else are they supposed to measure...
- Tags: desktop virtualization, KVM, innotek VirtualBox, Sun xVM, VMware Inc., Sun xVM VirtualBox 2.0, Sun Microsystems Inc., Sun xVM VirtualBox
- Discussion threads 2008-09-10
- Microsoft Hyper-V virtualization technology is ready to roll
- Microsoft Hyper-V virtualization technology is ready to rollActually...You should ask THAT to Apple, not Microsoft...Because Apple's usage agreement only allows OSX to run on Apple hardware?And while Psystar might be avoiding a lawsuit, it's very unlikely that Apple would hold back if MS tried to enable it's customers to easily...
- Tags: desktop virtualization, cloud computing, Storage management, Utility computing, Operating systems, Tools & Techniques, non-Windows OS, hardware list, Microsoft Hyper-V, Microsoft Hyper-V virtualization technology, VMware Inc., virtualization, innotek VirtualBox, virtu
- Discussion threads 2008-06-25
- Virtualization smackdown: Sun xVM VirtualBox 1.6 vs. VMWare Server 2.0 Beta 2
- Once strictly the domain of software developers and QA engineers, personal and small-business virtualization products are now becoming an attractive solution for entry-level systems consolidation and foreign OS compatibility applications. These solutions run on host operating systems which do not require the overhead or usual high entry cost of professional...
- Tags: Innotek VirtualBox, Version, Operating System, Sun Microsystems Inc., VMware Inc., Beta, Sun xVM VirtualBox 1.6 xVM VirtualBox, Linux Setup, VMWare Server 2.0 Beta 2 VMWare Server 2.0, VMWare 2.0, Linux, Virtualization, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Operating Systems, Open Source, Servers, Software, Hardware, Storage, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-05-21
- What to make of Sun buying Innotek?
- What to make of Sun buying Innotek?VirtualBox userI'm quite happy with using VirtualBox, and with this decision too. Don't see it as a bad one at all yet.If what, there's always an open-source version of virtualbox in major repositories.RE: What to make of Sun buying Innotek?I think Sun are suffering...
- Tags: Virtualization, Sun Solaris, Storage management, Utility computing, Operating systems, innotek VirtualBox, Sun Microsystems Inc., InnoTek
- Discussion threads 2008-02-15
- What to make of Sun buying Innotek?
- You can take the company out of the proprietary software market, but you can't take the proprietary attitude out of the company. I think that's the best way to explain Sun's purchase of Innotek, the German developer of the open source VirtualBox. Microsoft now...
- Tags: Innotek VirtualBox, Sun Microsystems Inc., VMware Inc., Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-02-14
- Sun acquires innotek
- I just read the notice that Sun had acquired innotek, the creators of Virtualbox, a virtual machine software product. Before I had a chance to really look into this move, I wondered why Sun would acquire another virtual machine software product when it had a program to integrate the Xen...
- Tags: Innotek VirtualBox, Operating System, Sun Microsystems Inc., Virtual Machine, Innotek GmbH, Sun xVM Server, Virtualization, Data Centers, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Operating Systems, Hardware, Storage, Data Management, Software, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-02-13
- VirtualBox (msi)
- InnoTek VirtualBox is a general-purpose full virtualizer for x86 hardware. Targeted at server, desktop and embedded use, it is now the only professional-quality virtualization solution that is also Open Source Software. VirtualBox has an extremely modular design with well-defined internal programming interfaces and a client/server design. The configuration settings of...
- Tags: Innotek VirtualBox, InnoTek, InnoTek VirtualBox, Desktop Virtualization, Virtualization, Hardware
- Software downloads 2008-01-08
- The Desktop Virtualization Diaries (prologue): The Good, the Bad, and the horribly Ugly
- The Desktop Virtualization Diaries prologue: The Good, the Bad, and the horribly UglyWorkstation 6 can show battery statusGo to VM > Settings > Options > Power and select Report battery information to guest. Then, in the VM, make sure your OS is set to display the battery status.You need to...
- Tags: Operating systems, VPNs, Engineering, Workstations, VMware Workstation, innotek VirtualBox, O/S, VPN, operating system, Unix, battery, workstation, desktop
- Discussion threads 2007-06-28
- No Wine for Ubuntu-powered Dell PCs
- No Wine for Ubuntu-powered Dell PCsJust a minor nit to pick...[B]"BTW You can easily install Wine without any hassle:"[/B]You can't install that which you do not know about! And chances are good that many of the new Linux customers won't know about wine. BUT for those in the know, you...
- Tags: innotek VirtualBox, Dell PC, PC, IBM Corp., wine, Dell Computer Corp., Ubuntu, Linux
- Discussion threads 2007-05-11
Additional Resources
- Which Sun story is more important
- Which Sun story is more importantSun is done...I really wish people would just forget this company. My rep said Microsoft only works with them so as to pretend that Microsoft cares about inter-operability. After the working sessions, Microsoft goes out and blasts Sun to all customers. My rep has the...
- Tags: Sales strategy, OPEN SOURCE, Sun Microsystems Inc., OSS, xVM VirtualBox 2.0, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-09-10
- News to know: Apple updates; Google antitrust; SAP; Countrywide; Patch Tuesday
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Ryan Naraine: Countrywide warning: Ex-employee may have sold customer, mortgage data Apple plugs gaping QuickTime security holes MS Patch Tuesday: 8 critical security holes patched ...
- Tags: Google Inc., Apple iPod, Antitrust, SAP AG, Apple Inc., Digital Music, Digital Media, Security, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, David Grober
- Blog posts 2008-09-10
- Will OS be a problem for netbooks?
- Will OS be a problem for netbooks?What version of the softwareis current? Is this the Lexia you're talking about:http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=10683[haven't yet worked out how to make links in posts...]RE: Will OS be a problem for netbooks?Apparently Vista and OSX 10.5+ are incompatible too. I wonder what code the Lexia software was...
- Tags: Ultramobile PCs (UMPCs), Operating systems, Lexia, operating system, wine, Microsoft Windows XP
- Discussion threads 2008-09-10
- Sun xVM VirtualBox 2.0
- Last week Sun launched the newest version of xVM VirtualBox, its open source virtual machine software offering. Here's a quick review of the announcement. Snippet of Sun's press release: Here are a few lightly edited segments of the Sun release: Sun Microsystems,...
- Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., xVM VirtualBox Software, Tools & Techniques, Open Source, Operating Systems, Management, Software, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-09-10
- Is Google's Chrome sliding into obscurity?
- Is Google's Chrome sliding into obscurity?I don't disagree with what you sayHere is Chrome's problem though: They give the beta a lot of press and encourage everyday users to try the thing, then BAM, security alerts all over the place. If you are going to give a browser the kind...
- Tags: Web browsers, Linux, Operating systems, Google Inc., Chrome, Google Chrome, beta, obscurity, Web browser
- Discussion threads 2008-09-09
- Microsoft to target Windows XP Pro users with Genuine 'nagware' notifications
- Microsoft to target Windows XP Pro users with Genuine 'nagware' notificationsI don't know what difference it will makePeople who love Windows will still love Windows. People who hate Windows will still hate Windows. People who pirate Windows will still pirate Windows.RE: Microsoft to target Windows XP Pro users with Genuine...
- Tags: Operating systems, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows XP Professional, Windows XP Pro user, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Genuine Advantage, Microsoft Windows Vista
- Discussion threads 2008-08-26
- The biggest open source threat to Microsoft
- The biggest open source threat to MicrosoftDid he.......no...False alarm. He didn't buy a Laptop. Never mind. ;)What makes it different from Wine then?or Mono for that matter? I had worked on Win-OS2, which is a Windows 3 inside OS/2, during OS/2's heydays. It failed miserably even with IBM's...
- Tags: Operating systems, cloud computing, Storage management, Linux, Dana, open source, Face it Linux, Microsoft Windows, operating system, virtualization, HPCC, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-08-15
- VMware bug causes worldwide disruption
- VMware bug causes worldwide disruption"Move the clock backwards on the server"?!!"Move the clock backwards on the server"? What kind of critical resource management is that? No processes, no interprocess, intermachine, interdepartmental, intersite dependencies--hmm, to start, NTP...--will suffer heartburn from that and/or from its later rectification?"Move the clock backwards on the...
- Tags: Patches, VMware Inc., worldwide disruption, clock backward, bug cause
- Discussion threads 2008-08-13
- Are "instant on" notebooks the future?
- Are "instant on" notebooks the future?Instant boot into full OS...I imagine there has to be a way to perform this instant Linux boot while loading the full OS in the background and seamlessly giving you the full OS functions once its loaded. Now if the Linux community concentrated on that...
- Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, notebook, Linux, Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2008-08-13
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