Posts Tagged ‘hypervisor’

Citrix XenServer Available for Free

Posted on February 23, 2009, 19:44, by Tor Håkon Haugen, under Technology, Virtualization.

Several news sites reports today that Citrix is going to make XenServer available free, which is based upon the open source Xen hypervisor. Last year VMware released their own hypervisor, ESXi, for free.
Apparantly the big money isn’t in the hypervisor anymore, but the technology to manage them. Giving away your product is the best way to [...]

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Running VMware ESXi Hypervisor

Posted on February 22, 2009, 12:29, by Tor Håkon Haugen, under Technology, VMware, Virtualization.

VMware ESXi is a free Hypervisor from VMware. In simple terms, a host for virtual machines. The difference from VMware Server, which also is a free Hypervisor, is that ESXi runs directly on the hardware whereas VMware Server need to run on top of another operating system.
When I first started thinking about virtualizing my home [...]

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