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Posts about Virtualization in all its forms.
Having seen a great demo and presentation this week about the new VirtualBox 1.6 release, I have been enjoying trying out the various combinations to see which ones I like more. Today I tried out the Solaris version of VirtualBox on my OpenSolaris 2008.05 laptop. My laptop is a Sony VAIO, a Centrino Pro processor based system. [...]
VirtualBox is a great desktop virtualization solution. It's free for personal use / evaluation, runs on Mac, Windows, Linux, Solaris or OpenSolaris, and supports a huge number of guest OS's. The user interface is really well tuned for a simple desktop user, and as UI's go, I think it has some really good context-aware help. I [...]
The inaccuracy for system time of VMs has been well documented. This behavior has been labeled time drift. Because of the time drift while executing, it is recommended to use NTP. Use LINUX to set up an NTP server within the network of the physical machine(s) being used. This will allow the VMs to sync [...]
I am writing this as myself (stev) and not representing any company or entity. I used and promoted using a virtualized environment back in 2000. Working for another company (Oresis), who has since gone out of business (2002), I was able to shorten build times for the system from 8 1/4 hours to 2 1/2 [...]
These were more or less the words of wisdom that a well respected blog-vet offered as I was contemplating my initial post. Who am I? I started with Intel in 1984 as a software engineer and have since held a variety of technical, marketing, and program management roles. In my current role, I get to [...]
Thanks to my good friends in our SSG Marketing group, I did a 5 minute video on the work we're doing at Intel to enhance OpenSolaris for our processors. Here is the URL - http://softwarecommunity.intel.com/videos/home.aspx?fn=1490: Of course, none of this would be possible without the awesome work from very talented engineers. My thanks to [...]
Recently I had the chance to sit with my colleagues from Sun and talk about the work we're doing on Solaris optimization on Intel's Xeon processors. The discussion is available online here: Sun and Intel webcast on Innovation This talk is MC'd by Julian Lukacs, from Sun's Market Development group which works with software developers to [...]
Last night, I decided to upgrade to the latest build of "Nevada", which is the project that OpenSolaris is based on. Build 87 (or SNV87 to the cognoscenti) has some cool features present, like improvements to memset(), memmove() and memcpy() to use the latest Intel processor instructions and some other good stuff. And [...]
In my previous blog post, where I introduced you to the amazing new Intel D5400XS desktop board which features a dual-socket capability allowing you to use two quad core processors within your system, several of you commented about the boards intial availability. Well I'm happy to now tell you that this morning when looked for the board [...]
Did you notice that the ISN site has a new look? We just launched the update which moves our navigation up to a simple header at the top of each page. We've also made the header and navigation consistent across the blogs, content, forums, etc. For those of you still wondering what I'm talking [...]