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A client-side hypervisor is a virtual machine monitor (VMM) that resides in and virtualizes a user's computer (see client virtualization). Type 1 hypervisors are the computer's master control program.

Virtualization has been a major factor in the enterprise space for years; several virtualization providers have become billion-dollar companies. More recently, virtualization has started to become a ...

Desktop virtualization is hot -- ask any IT pundit. But it can also be confusing, because the market contains a variety of server- and client-based technologies for creating virtual desktops. Virtual ...

I noted last month that embedding the code for server virtualization directly into the hardware, something called an embedded hypervisor, hasn't taken off to any significant degree. Rather, most IT ...

Attackers have already recognized the strategic value of the hypervisor. The question now is whether defenders will treat it ...

The world of hypervisors is complicated by the fact that there are proprietary and open source tools and the latter are often pressed into service in different ways, say nothing of the fact that the ...

Open source hypervisor KSM was built to be tiny and light, with uses ranging from a software sandbox to a complement to containerization Linux kernel developer Ahmed Samy has released an open source ...

Citrix will ship in the third quarter a technical preview of Open Virtual Machine format tools that will allow developers and IT pros to create virtual, portable application workloads that run on ...

What is virtualization anyway? This five-part series on a trend that is reaching into every corner of the technology landscape addresses that fundamental question, along with many of the complex ...

The bare-metal hypervisor, also known as a Type 1 hypervisor, is desktop virtualization software that is installed directly onto the PC’s hardware. But the technology is in its infancy — even big ...