Ever since Sun bought the virtualization smith Innotek in 2008, the development of its VirtualBox has taken giant strides.

The newest version 3.01-4 of x2go first of all provides a client for Microsoft's recent Windows 7 operating system.

The FreeBSD project has released its 8.0 version of the free UNIX operating system, thereby starting a new stable branch.

Red Hat and Microsoft have deepened their partnership even further in the virtualization realm under the concept of "interoperabiity." Cross-certification should lead to more satisfied customers.

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The Open vSwitch open source project has announced development of a sofware switch for virtual environments.

Microsoft caused a sensation with its release of its Hyper-V virtualization driver -- now its inclusion in the Linux kernel could be in doubt.

Announced at the Red Hat Summit in Chicago, the Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 5 update intends to set the groundwork for future virtualization products and cloud computing.