Some 64-bit operating systems and virtualization software programs are vulnerable to local privilege escalation attacks when running on Intel processors (CPUs), the U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness ...

Computer system virtualization was first introduced in mainframes during the 1960s and 1970s. Although virtualization remained a largely untapped facility during the 1980s and 1990s, computer ...

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Although VMware continues to hold the majority share of the commercial virtualization market, other virtualization technologies are increasingly significant, though not necessarily as high profile.

The Department of Defense (DoD) spends significant amounts of money addressing software obsolescence and compatibility across the enterprise. Obsolescence is driven by lack of vendor support as ...

Coming out of VMworld, I've run into many people who've been convinced that operating systems are becoming an endangered species and that shortly they'll be replaced by virtual machine software. I ...

Oracle Corp. is rolling out a major update to its free open-source virtualization platform, Oracle VM VirtualBox. Announced today, Oracle VM VirtualBox 7 is a cross-platform application that enables ...

In a rapid fire presentation, the Ncomputing folks provided a very interesting view into what they've been doing to help organizations take advantage of the unused power in today's desktop systems to ...

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 ...

Sun’s VirtualBox lets you install multiple operating systems, offering greater speed and ease of use than its competitors. Whether you prefer Linux, Windows, or Mac OS X, you can probably get almost ...

This year it seems like every other computing news story has discussed virtualization, and if you haven’t yet got a grip on what it means, you probably feel a little left-out. Virtualization seems to ...

Virtualization has not stripped Windows of its relevance, a Microsoft official said in response to VMware CEO Paul Maritz’s argument that operating systems are no longer the center of innovation in ...