by Stephanie McLoughlin

Test Center Tracker: Virtualization goes open-source

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Jan 16, 20071 min

What's in the box?: For all the buzz about virtualization in 2006, it's certainly not dying down in 2007. InnoTek is making its VirtualBox virtualization platform available as open-source technology under the GPL, a move that could prove interesting as the market develops. Get more details on the Virtualization Report blog. (Greg Nawrocki on the Grid Meter blog has a few virtualization resources to recommend, to

What’s in the box?: For all the buzz about virtualization in 2006, it’s certainly not dying down in 2007. InnoTek is making its VirtualBox virtualization platform available as open-source technology under the GPL, a move that could prove interesting as the market develops. Get more details on the Virtualization Report blog. (Greg Nawrocki on the Grid Meter blog has a few virtualization resources to recommend, too.)

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