[ Thanks to Jason
Perlow for this link. ]
“Once strictly the domain of software developers and QA
engineers, personal and small-business virtualization products are
now becoming an attractive solution for entry-level systems
consolidation and foreign OS compatibility applications. These
solutions run on host operating systems which do not require the
overhead or usual high entry cost of professional hypervisor-based
solutions, such as VMWare ESX Server, Microsoft Hyper-V, Virtual
Iron, Citrix XenServer, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, SUSE Linux
Enterprise Server, Oracle VM and Sun xVM Server, all of which with
the exception of the first two are based on the open source Xen
hypervisor.“The market leader in this SMB/Personal virtualization space has
traditionally been VMWare, which released the very first commercial
x86 desktop virtualization product, Workstation 1.0, in
1999…”