22 stories tagged virtualization, newest first.
129 points by tosh | 13 comments
Oxide Computer blog post describing Virtual Oxide Labs, a system for emulating a full Oxide rack to support testing and development without physical hardware.
4 points by dorianzheng | 0 comments
A BoxLite blog post opening a build-in-public series explaining what BoxLite is, why it started on libkrun, why it is replacing it, and how a VMM works.
91 points by cnkk | 24 comments
Hetzner engineering blog post giving a history and technical overview of the Hetzner Cloud network stack.
218 points by tonymet | 195 comments
Blog post benchmarking WSL 2.6.3 against WSL 3.0.2 across syscalls, memory bandwidth, and Go compile workloads, comparing Linux kernels 6.6 and 6.18.
38 points by avsm | 30 comments
Blog post by Dave Scott explaining that Docker Desktop has run containers inside microVMs with a stripped-down Linux kernel since 2016.
147 points by WanjohiRyan | 59 comments
GitHub repository for virtio-nvgpu, an experimental virtio device providing near-native NVIDIA GPU access inside KVM virtual machines.
337 points by zacwest | 241 comments
Communications of the ACM research article by Madhavapeddy, Scott, and Cormack reviewing ten years of Docker containers and the technical challenges behind them.
386 points by gpi | 52 comments
OpenBSD Journal article reporting that OpenBSD-current on arm64 now runs as a guest OS under Apple Hypervisor, following commits by Helg Bredow and Stefan Fritsch.
726 points by gok | 385 comments
GitHub repository for Apple's Containerization, an Apache-2.0 Swift package for running Linux containers on macOS.
360 points by makeboss | 170 comments
GitHub repository for Microsandbox, a self-hosted platform for securely executing untrusted user or AI-generated code in lightweight virtual machines.
442 points by plam503711 | 170 comments
Blog post from Vates/XCP-ng describing a $130M aerospace company repeatedly abusing Xen Orchestra free trials instead of building from source with git pull.
333 points by walterbell | 128 comments
A blog post by Nick Botticelli, dated April 30, 2024, about virtualizing iOS on Apple Silicon Macs.
659 points by lijunhao | 182 comments
GitHub repository for Docker-OSX, a project that runs a macOS virtual machine via QEMU/KVM inside a Docker container.
579 points by sebg | 119 comments
WebVM is a browser-based virtual Linux environment that runs x86 binaries client-side via WebAssembly using the CheerpX virtualization engine.
474 points by CyberusTech | 180 comments
Cyberus Technology blog post announcing the open-source release of its KVM backend for VirtualBox, letting VirtualBox use Linux KVM instead of its own kernel module.
411 points by overbytecode | 128 comments
GitHub repository for Quickemu, a tool that quickly creates and runs optimised Windows, macOS and Linux desktop virtual machines using QEMU.
394 points by tonoto | 274 comments
Broadcom's landing page announcing that VMware has joined Broadcom following the acquisition, with a link to a message from CEO Hock Tan.
460 points by CiTyBear | 297 comments
Announcement page for the initial 0.0.1 release of macOS native containers, letting users run macOS inside macOS and build images with Docker.
469 points by jseliger | 137 comments
Julia Evans blog post recommending Lima as a simpler alternative to Vagrant for running Linux virtual machines on a Mac.
379 points by hugodutka | 137 comments
Hocus blog post by co-founder Hugo Dutka explaining why the company switched its development environment VMs from Firecracker to QEMU.
759 points by jandeboevrie | 250 comments
Blog post by Richard WM Jones describing booting the Linux kernel 292,612 times in 21 hours, likely to track down a kernel bug.
558 points by mulle_nat | 260 comments
TechRadar Pro news article reporting that Apple lost its lawsuit seeking to ban iOS virtual machines, with the court ruling iOS VMs for research legal.