Physorg.com is one of many places carrying news of a recent experiment to run the Palacios virtual machine monitor on over 4,000 nodes, the largest test of the software to date. Results show that the ...

Runtime performance is an aspect of virtual machine qualification that often goes overlooked. Many IT shops wrongly assume that virtualization performance is tied to the underlying hardware, ...

The software that creates a virtual machine (VM) environment in a computer (for the fundamental concept, see virtual machine). In a regular, non-virtual computer, the operating system is the master ...

To be able to use VirtualBox on Multiple Monitors with any virtual machine, you need to change the default settings. If you have a dual monitor setup and you want to use both screens with your guest ...

Network General has added modules to its NetVigil monitoring product, which let IT personnel peer into the workings of two popular virtualization products: VMware’s ESX and Microsoft Virtual Server.

It started out as a way to save money when Gannett Co. was adding new servers back in 2002. Now, says Eric Kuzmack, IT architect at the McLean, Va.-based newspaper publisher, “we have a couple hundred ...

While Hyper-V largely handles NUMA placement automatically, admins can still hurt VM performance by overallocating virtual CPUs past a single physical CPU's core count, making it important to size VMs ...