While a new startup works to unofficially open source the VMware VMFS, Citrix has officially open sourced its implementation of the Microsoft VHD format. Citrix and Microsoft adopt the same virtual hard drive format since September 2007, when they closed a deal to adopt VHD in all the upcoming produ...

The brrrrrrr quality of the weather is no excuse to have sickly pale skin. In fact, it’s the best excuse ever to self-tan! Dera Enochson, Tanning Expert and creator of the Xen-Tan self-tanning collection, shares her tips on creating the perfect, natural looking self-tan · Gently exfoliate the...

Red Hat and Microsoft will validate each other's virtualization technologies per an agreement announced yesterday. Each company will join the other's virtualization validation/certification program and will provide technical support for their mutual server virtualization customers. Hard to say what ...

Currently, when I create a new Xen DomU, I have to create a new logical volume, edit a configuration template, install the OS, and finally modify the configuration file to its final post-install parameters. This is a time-consuming process that should be avoided if at all possible, yet I have not be...

VC, deals, IT Wade Roush wrote: Virtual Computer, a Westford, MA, PC virtualization startup that has been gradually decloaking since last fall, today announced that it’s raised a Series B funding round totaling $15 million. The surprisingly large round was led by Highland Capital Partners of L...

This weekend I spent a good bit of time working with Microsoft's Hyper-V in the Converging Network Labs, following my daughter's baby shower on Saturday (which went swimmingly well thanks to all hard work my wife put into the event.) I installed the release version of Hyper-V on an Intel ...

Have you ever had a computer for a long time and then wanted or needed to move all your data to a new one? Or, have you ever had to reinstall Windows just because you’ve loaded so many programs that it’s caused your computer to crash so often that you’re willing to start over? Well...

It seems I have fallen victim to a series of misunderstandings these days. First there was Joanna-Gate and now Simon Crosby, Citrix's CTO, suggests in a blog entry titled "Chris Hoff & The Mother Of All Misunderstandings" that I'm puffing on the wrong end of my cigars for disagreeing w...

In an article over at SearchSecurity.com, Simon Crosby, the CTO of Citrix, suggests that "Virtualization vendors [are] not in the security business."  Besides summarizing what is plainly an obvious statement of fact regarding the general omission of integrated security (outside of sec...

A bit over a week ago I had the privilege to sit down and chat with Xen Mendelsohn of MyFrame makers of Flixwagon. If you aren't familiar with Flixwagon, it is a Mobile Web 2.0 service that allows users to publish live (or nearly live) video from their mobile handsets. Unfortunately I missed meeting...