Virtualization at home and at work

"Virtualization homes in on desktops" points out how virtualization can have a place at home, like having a secure partition for online banking applications. They do point out one weakness of virtualization: requirements for lots of memory (each partition need to have independent set of memory, which can add up when you have more than 2 partitions -- there are ways to make the read only memories to be sharable (like same copy of the OS), but it's all easier said than done since current crop of OS wasn't written for virtualization).

And slightly older news: "VMware dangles next-gen virtualization goodies." Ideas for fault-tolerance would be a great usage for virtualiztaion.

So, there are few areas of virtualization which can use some work: Unfortunately, I don't have the energy to give it much thought, these days (you can see that I haven't been posting much recently).

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