Microsoft on Monday said it would remove the price tag from its Virtual Server and begin offering the virtualization technology as a free download to Windows users. Virtual Server 2005 R2 Enterprise ...

Virtualization brings extended opportunities to solution providers, the technology runs “guest” operating systems on a “host” machine and allows easy demos of products or tests ...

Around the same time that VMware updated its Workstation product with a new refresh build, Microsoft also updated both of its hosted virtualization platforms, Virtual PC 2007 and Virtual Server 2005 ...

The Redmond, Wash., software giant late last week announced the first beta of Virtual Server 2005 Release 2 Service Pack 1, which includes compatibility with Intel Virtualization Technology (VT). Beta ...

Microsoft has announced that Virtual Server R2 Enterprise Edition will come with a new pricing structure - free. In addition, new offerings are now available in the form of virtual machine add-ins and ...

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.

With a host of software and manufacturing partners in tow, Microsoft held its “Get Virtual Now” launch event Monday. It was the official coming-out party for the much talked-about Windows Server 2008 ...

With the launch of Virtual PC 2007 Microsoft made it clear they have no intention of competing in the desktop virtualization market. The product's lackluster performance and limited feature set will ...

Do any of you run linux machines on MS virtual server in production?<BR><BR>It's quite a bit cheaper than vmware esx server so I'm considering it.

Really, CPU power is only as important as you want it to be, or, for testing, that is plenty. RAM is important, since VS or VPC will only run with physical RAM. So, if you want to run 4 guest OS's, ...

As virtualization has gone from cutting edge to mainstream however, IT organizations are gaining virtualization experience, testing other platforms, and finding good fits for KVM, Microsoft, Oracle, ...