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 ...

VMware offers a very comprehensive selection of virtualization products, with Fusion for the Apple Mac and Workstation for the PC. Despite the name difference, these two products offer effectively the ...

Virtual machine software - software that gets beneath an d then encapsulates an entire stack of software from the operating system, data management software, middleware and, of course, the ...

Modern operating systems provide enhanced security, while containing legacy software vulnerabilities in a virtual environment. These additional layers of protection allow operation of legacy ...

This type of virtualization relies on an existing operating system (the host operating system), a third-party virtualization software solution and creation of various guest operating systems.

Editor's Note: Embedded Systems Security aims for a comprehensive, systems view of security: hardware, platform software (such as operating systems and hypervisors), software development process, data ...

Wong: Increasing processing efficiency with virtualization techniques is becoming a major topic in embedded-systems design. How does TenAsys see embedded virtualization being employed?

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 ...

By the mid-1970s, at Lawrence Berkeley Labs in California, Hall, Scherrer & Sventek published “A Virtual Operating System,” CACM September 1980.

Microsoft's Virtual Hard Disk (VHD) format can be used to collect an operating system, higher-level software and specific configuration details into a single package.

Virtualization software adds antivirus scan The beta version of Returnil Virtual System 2010 combines a malware scan with its ability to protect your PC from any unintended file or system changes.

Renesas announced the R-Car hypervisor in April of 2017 and the new R-Car virtualization support package was developed to help software vendors accelerate their development of R-Car hypervisors.