Hey people, sorry the site hasn’t been as active as it has in the past, I wanted to at least provide you with a weekly update.  As most of you know, I’m the Technical Editor for Scott Lowe’s upcoming book, this has taken up a good majority of my free time. Also things are crazy busy in local government right now, I’ve been working 50-60 hour weeks.  This hasn’t left me with much free time to do anything.  I haven’t signed on to Twitter in a couple days, I missed this weeks VMTN Roundtable… I feel so out of the loop!

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For those of you that have read my prior post on Sun VirtualBox, you would already know that I think it is a viable alternative to VMware Server.  Although I do not feel it is strong enough to contend with VMware Workstation, I feel it definietely sits at the top of the free type-2 based hypervisor offerings.  The best thing about it is that it has a build for pretty much every operating system (including Mac).

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Just like everyone else, Sun has joined the Virtualization marketplace. A couple weeks back I reviewed Sun VirtualBox which takes a stab at VMware Server with somewhat of a success (simply because its fast and runs on virtually any operating system (Mac included)). This round I will discuss their bare-metal stage 1 hypervisor, xVM Server.

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