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VitualBox 2.1.2 Released

By on January 27, 2009 in Technology

You might have noticed that VirtualBox 2.1.2 has been released into the wild. While there is a laundry list of changes, a few performance and stability enhancements for Mac OS X were on the top of want my list. While Parallels and VMWare offer commercial solutions, Sun backed VirtualBox offers many similar features for free. [...]

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AQEMU Frontend for QEMU

By on December 16, 2008 in Technology

Virtualization has always held a special place in my toolset because it allows me to make modifications to my environment without the headache of potentially breaking something. So, any improvements on this front tend to grab my attention. Recently, I came across AQEMU a GUI frontend to QEMU. For those of you who may not [...]

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PC Hardware Virtualization Basics

By on August 11, 2008 in Technology

With single core processors reaching their peak potential, and the latest quad core processors either on the market or a short distance off (dual 4-core Penryn), we are left to wonder how consumer computing will change beyond editing Word documents and playing 3D photo-realistic games. Enter virtualization. Virtualization refers to virtualizing hardware in software, allowing [...]

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