SWsoft, a provider of both operating system and hardware virtualization products, has an interesting whitepaper titled “Top Ten Considerations for Choosing a Server Virtualization Technology”.

One possible use of virtualization technology is as a hardware-abstraction-layer to hide the differences between servers in a data center. Topics Spotlight: Solving Data Analytics Challenges ...

Virtual servers, however, can be created and moved at the click of a mouse. Versions of applications and operating systems can be saved for later use, taken off line or even be re-created, with ...

Low level standards like SCSI and RAID are forms of virtualization that abstract or hide the underlying physical attributes of disk drives from operating systems and applications.

An operating system or application — even the virtual server itself, or other computers on the same network — can’t tell the difference between a virtual machine and a physical machine ...

Virtualization refers to technologies designed to provide a layer of abstraction between computer hardware systems and the software running on them. By providing a logical view of computing ...

Figure 1. Virtualization allows partitioning physical resources (memory, processor) between multiple “guest” operating systems. From this bird's-eye view there is no difference between embedded- and ...

Hardware Virtualization: This allows one server to run multiple operating systems at the same time, decreasing the number of servers needed to power a workforce. Software Virtualization: If you’ve ...

Hardware virtualization using virtual machines (VMs) has several use cases in embedded systems, ranging from workload consolidation to running applications on legacy operating systems.