Network General has added modules to its NetVigil monitoring product, which let IT personnel peer into the workings of two popular virtualization products: VMware’s ESX and Microsoft Virtual Server.

I have an odd setup, which seems pretty straight forward to me. I've got a virtual machine host running Linux KVM (Ubuntu Server 14.04). This box has a few NICs. eth0 is tied to br0, and that connects ...

Microsoft today announced the "general availability" of its Accelerated Networking technology for Azure virtual machines, which is available for use with both Linux- and Windows-based VMs. General ...

I was struck by Alex’s article on software development using virtual machines. His tl;dr conclusion was that “using a VM to develop software has a lot of advantages, but it is not quite ready for ...

VirtualBox and VMware default to NAT network type for virtual machines. You will be required to change the network type or forward ports if you are planning to run server software inside your VMs as ...

There's more virtualization than ever before being installed in data centers. Each host server runs a hypervisor that includes a virtual switch — a piece of software that manages networked data flows ...

One of the more challenging things about virtualization is the simple fact that virtual machines can move. That means that a virtual machine that was once physically close to the data it needs to ...

Tremendous shifts in networking research and development over the last few years have resulted in a whole new class of networking devices, more widely known as Software Defined Networking (SDN) ...