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Virtual Game Station: PlayStation emulation software. Sold to Sony, who bought it only after their lawsuit to stop it failed, and then dropped the product immediately. Virtual PC and Virtual server: Emulation software of x86-based personal computers for the Macintosh, Windows and OS/2.
For older, or lower-performance, games such as Lego Batman, multiple instances could be played on each server using virtualization technology. High-end games such as Assassin's Creed II required one GPU per game. Two video streams are created for each game. One (the live stream) is optimized for game-play and real-world Internet conditions ...
Instruction set extensions that have been added to the x86 instruction set in order to support hardware virtualization.These extensions provide instructions for entering and leaving a virtualized execution context and for loading virtual-machine control structures (VMCSs), which hold the state of the guest and host, along with fields which control processor behavior within the virtual machine.
Usually the pre-copy phase ends when the number of dirtied pages remaining becomes small enough to yield a short stop-and-copy phase. However, if a VM keeps dirtying memory faster than can be re-copied to the destination, then pre-copy phase will end after a set time limit or maximum number of pre-copy rounds to begin the next stop-and-copy phase.
Microsoft Virtual Server was a virtualization solution that facilitated the creation of virtual machines on the Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows Server 2003 operating systems. Originally developed by Connectix , it was acquired by Microsoft prior to release.
Application streaming is a form of on-demand software distribution. In these scenarios, only essential portions of an application's code need to be installed on the computer: while the end user performs actions in the application, the necessary code and files are delivered over the network as and when they are required.
Citrix Virtual Apps is application virtualization software that delivers centrally-hosted Windows applications to local devices without the necessity of installing them. [1] It is the flagship product for Citrix and was formerly known under the names WinFrame, MetaFrame, and Presentation Server.
VMware Server (formerly VMware GSX Server) is a discontinued free-of-charge virtualization-software server suite developed and supplied by VMware, Inc. VMware Server has fewer features than VMware ESX , software available for purchase, but can create, edit, and play virtual machines.