Last week’s LinuxWorld Conference in Boston was the locus of several important announcements. Again, virtualization was front and center. In no particular order: * XenSource announced XenEnterprise.

Virtual machines, simulated PCs with their own operating systems running within another computer’s software, are super freakin’ cool. (That’s a technical term, I’m a professional technology writer.) ...

Kevin Pedretti, lead researcher for Sandia National Laboratories’ virtual external operating system program, uses his laptop computer to inspect a virtual machine experiment running on Sandia’s Red ...

Technologies like hypervisors, containers, and virtual machines (VMs) can make this task easier by providing isolation ...