Apple and virtualization pundits agree that Apple needs to allow virtualization of its operating system. Although, it's likely that OS X Server is fading away after the Lion release, the desktop ...

Brien lays out his argument on why you will soon start to see features of a traditional operating system shifting to the hypervisor. If someone were to ask me what I thought that the most important ...

In the previous installment of the Virtualization Guide, I talked in general ways about the exculsive hardware access privileges that the OS reserves for itself. Now it's time to nuance that picture a ...

Let's call it the "widgetification" of the computer: with a suitably-sized chunk of flash memory, you can instantly boot a stateless, safe machine that connects directly to a network and provides a ...

iCore Software brings OS virtualization to the home client PC and to Windows XP -- making it the first to offer container-based virtualization for the Windows desktop Virtualization has become one of ...

It's hard to justify spending that much money on an OS when you can go the FOSS route with Linux distributions ...

Speculation is rampant that Mach, which is a component of the OS X kernel, will be axed from OS X 10.5 (Leopard). If you read Cringely’s treatise on monolithic kernels you’ll get the gist of the ...