I've got a new Dell Precision 390 at my desk that I was planning to run ESX server on, but alas, it has SATA drives, which are completely unsupported. So now I'm leaning towards installing VMWare ...

VMware Server runs on Windows or Linux, supports Windows and Linux and Solaris guests, and it's free. These are all nice qualities. About the only knock against it has been the absence of a ...

SAN FRANCISCO--Red Hat and Novell, the two top Linux sellers, have only just begun building Xen virtualization software into their products. But they're already planning to add a higher-level option.

The first name on the list, Puppy Linux is a must-try Linux distro for low-end PC users. It is renowned for its extremely small size and minimal system requirement. The distro is designed to run ...

In last week's article, we discussed virtualization and its role in reducing server sprawl. We included VMware server as one of the products used to virtualize a data center. VMware also sells a ...

VMware is launching two open source projects targeting Linux containers, continuing the vendor's efforts to show that Docker and other containers can coexist with the world of vSphere and ESXi. Of ...