Thanks to the 2001 Sun/Microsoft settlement regarding their legal dispute over the use of the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) in the Microsoft environment, many corporations may be facing a problem of Y2K ...

For years, Java Virtual Machine (Java VM) has been the "container" technology of choice for dropping the exact same version of an application (as Java bytecode) onto multiple platforms and operating ...

What is a virtual machine? A virtual machine (VM) is software that runs programs or applications without being tied to a physical machine. In a VM instance, one or more guest machines can run on a ...

(1) A synonym for a language interpreter. See interpreter, Java Virtual Machine and Python. (2) Software that enables a different operating system and applications to run in a computer along with the ...

JPC is a pure Java emulation of an x86 PC with fully virtual peripherals. And it can run anywhere that has a JVM, whether x86, RISC, mobile-phone or set-top box. It has been developed since August ...

In today’s complex IT environments, server virtualization simply makes sense. Redundant server hardware can rapidly fill enterprise datacenters to capacity; each new purchase drives up power and ...

For the first time, Apple is allowing owners of OS X (client version) to run multiple virtual copies on the same machine. Previously, Apple extended this ability to Mac OS X Server only. Running ...

Recently I wrote a detailed article on using VMware Fusion and Parallels Desktop on the Mac. These two programs are virtualization solutions—they allow one “host” operating system (Mac OS X) to run ...