Sun has released a major update to its open source desktop virtualization tool xVM VirtualBox, adding support for Mac OS X and Solaris host operating systems, in addition to other improvements.

With virtualization now a mainstream technology for most large businesses, the big players like EMC (VMWare), IBM and Microsoft are investing heavily in proprietary options for running multiple guest ...

Virtualization is unarguably one of the biggest trends of the past few years, and open-source software has been on the IT radar for a while now. So does that make open-source virtualization twice as ...

Open source efforts to make it easier for companies to virtualize data center resources, whether they are Linux- or Windows-based, will be on full display this week at the LinuxWorld Conference and ...

SWSoft is putting its virtualization software into the open source community with the introduction of the Server Virtualization Open Source Project, or OpenVZ, which is freely available at the OpenVZ ...

Savings are a big factor in the move to open-source virtualization, but so is the ability to tweak the software to suit specific requirements Virtualization is unarguably one of the biggest trends of ...

These heroes of open source software are hard at work behind the scenes without you even realizing it.

SANTA CLARA, Calif.-- (BUSINESS WIRE)-- Nexenta (@Nexenta), the global leader in Open Source-driven Software-Defined Storage (OpenSDS), today announced that its NexentaConnect for Citrix XenDesktop ® ...

Intel-based Mac OS X users now have yet another virtualization solution to choose from now that Innotek has announced a Mac version of its VirtualBox virtualization software. This time though, the ...

SourceForge remains an important part of the open-source ecosystem. Its move to provide virtualized instances of applications is a new way for people to consume software. Dave Rosenberg has more than ...