Virtual Iron is branching out with the announcement that it will manage the open source virtual machine monitor. The company, one of Network World’s 10 Hot Start ...

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.

Lightweight solutions deliver best results Runtime performance is an aspect of virtual machine qualification that often goes overlooked. Many IT shops wrongly assume that virtualization performance is ...

The first OS installed in a computer. In a virtual machine environment, there may be a host operating system that interacts with the virtual machine monitor, which manages the virtual machines.

The Cloud Hypervisor project today became the latest open-source software project to be welcomed into the arms of the Linux Foundation. A hypervisor, sometimes known as a virtual machine monitor, is ...