We took Gnome Boxes for a quick spin—it has promise but needs more work. I generally describe virt-manager as “simple”—and in many ways it’s much simpler than Boxes is—but there are different ways to ...

SAN FRANCISCO--Linux is the key that will make virtual machines easier to build, according to Kevin Kettler, Dell's chief technical officer. He spoke to an audience gathered for the LinuxWorld ...

Linux, of course, has long had hypervisors such as its built-in KVM (Kernel Virtual Machine) and Xen but containers take a different approach to virtualization. In traditional hypervisors, the entire ...

You’ve probably heard about Google Chromebooks. Like Android, Chrome OS is based on some variant of Linux, but it is targeted at the “cloud first” strategy so Chromebooks typically don’t have a huge ...

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 ...

With the unveiling of a comprehensive service pack Wednesday, Novell will bolster virtualization, clustering, and desktop capabilities in its Suse Linux product family. Available June 2, the Suse ...