The short version: VMware stood accused of illegally using Linux code in its flagship VMware ESX bare-metal virtual machine (VM) hypervisor. The story began in August 2006, when prominent Linux ...

I've got a new Dell Precision 390 at my desk that I was planning to run ESX server on, but alas, it has SATA drives, which are completely unsupported. So now I'm leaning towards installing VMWare ...

VMware Server runs on Windows or Linux, supports Windows and Linux and Solaris guests, and it's free. These are all nice qualities. About the only knock against it has been the absence of a ...

Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about processors, digital photography, AI, quantum computing, computer science, materials science, supercomputers, drones, browsers, 3D ...

SAN FRANCISCO--Red Hat and Novell, the two top Linux sellers, have only just begun building Xen virtualization software into their products. But they're already planning to add a higher-level option.