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Open Virtualization Format (OVF) is an open standard for packaging and distributing virtual appliances or, more generally, software to be run in virtual machines. The standard describes an "open, secure, portable, efficient and extensible format for the packaging and distribution of software to be run in virtual machines ".
VirtualBox. Oracle VirtualBox (formerly Sun VirtualBox, Sun xVM VirtualBox and InnoTek VirtualBox) is a hosted hypervisor for x86 virtualization developed by Oracle Corporation. VirtualBox was originally created by InnoTek Systemberatung GmbH, which was acquired by Sun Microsystems in 2008, which was in turn acquired by Oracle in 2010.
Comparison of platform virtualization software. Platform virtualization software, specifically emulators and hypervisors, are software packages that emulate the whole physical computer machine, often providing multiple virtual machines on one physical platform. The table below compares basic information about platform virtualization hypervisors.
A virtual appliance is a pre-configured virtual machine image, ready to run on a hypervisor; virtual appliances are a subset of the broader class of software appliances. Installation of a software appliance on a virtual machine and packaging that into an image creates a virtual appliance. Like software appliances, virtual appliances are ...
Oracle VM Server for x86 is a server virtualization offering from Oracle Corporation. Oracle VM Server for x86 incorporates the free and open-source Xen hypervisor technology, supports Windows, Linux, and Solaris [3] guests and includes an integrated Web based management console. Oracle VM Server for x86 features fully tested and certified ...
VMware Workstation is developed and sold by VMware, Inc., owned by Broadcom Inc. since November 2023. With version 17.6 Workstation Pro became free of charge for personal use, and the free restricted VMware Workstation Player (known as VMware Player until VMware Workstation 12 in 2015) was dropped. Ready-made Linux VMs set up for different ...
Second Level Address Translation (SLAT), also known as nested paging, is a hardware-assisted virtualization technology which makes it possible to avoid the overhead associated with software-managed shadow page tables. AMD has supported SLAT through the Rapid Virtualization Indexing (RVI) technology since the introduction of its third-generation ...
OpenVMS, often referred to as just VMS, [9] is a multi-user, multiprocessing and virtual memory-based operating system.It is designed to support time-sharing, batch processing, transaction processing and workstation applications. [10]