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 ...

Researchers at Core Security have issued an advisory warning users of a significant security flaw in a number of VMware desktop apps that could allow attackers to gain complete access to the ...

Virtualization companies, unwilling to see core products become a mere operating system feature, are signing deals to build them into hardware. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and ...

Earlier this year, a company called Parallels, Inc. got a lot of attention when it showcased its Parallels Desktop software for the Mac. The application &#151 which uses a technology called ...

Operating system virtualization software Virtuozzo from SWsoft is growing fastest among all vendors -- 98 percent -- in the hot overall market for virtualization technology, according to industry ...

Last week’s LinuxWorld Conference in Boston was the locus of several important announcements. Again, virtualization was front and center. In no particular order: * XenSource announced XenEnterprise.

Virtualization, hypervisors, and separation kernels have generated considerable buzz in both the enterprise and embedded marketplaces. In the embedded world, many of these technologies have been ...

Sun Microsystems Inc. is adding an advanced, more powerful 128-bit ZFS file system, new virtualization technologies and the Postgres open-source database to its Solaris 10 Unix operating system, as ...

Microsoft has followed a rival in advocating virtualization as a way to try out software painlessly. Microsoft's Virtual Hard Disk (VHD) format can be used to collect an operating system, higher-level ...

VMware's stellar stock offering Tuesday shows that virtual machines are starting to add up to real dollars. Virtual machines, the technology that VMware helped pioneer, allow one computer to act as ...