virtual machine

Unixmen: If you are a windows user and you want to try linux without using dual boot or a virtual machine andLinux might be worth a try.

Das U-Blog: "I tested Elementary OS on a live USB made with UnetBootin. Although this is an Ubuntu-based distribution, I tested the installation just for fun (and to see if the developers have made any changes there) in a virtual machine with 384 MB of RAM allocated to the guest OS."

Network World: "Three years in the making, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6 is a gutsy, green upgrade that features native support for KVM, the Linux kernel-based virtual machine."

ServerWatch: "Considering a switch to a virtualized infrastructure strikes fear into the hearts of even the most educated among today's CIOs.

Technology confusion and vendor choices aside, the physical-to-virtual transition dread stems from security concerns, performance uncertainty and scalability questions.

Red Hat's Kernel Virtual Machine (KVM) attempts to answer those trepidations positively."

http://engineering.attinteractive.com/2010/08/code-coverage-in-ruby-1-9/ (or on Ruby Inside)

Maxine VM is an open source meta-circular JVM from Sun.

Maxine is a VM designed for and written in the Java(TM) Programming Language with an emphasis on leveraging meta-circularity, componentized design, and code reuse to achieve flexibility, configurability, and productivity for academic and industrial virtual machine researchers.

VirtualBoxImages.com: When I first found VirtualBox and created my first Virtual Machine VirtualBox was still owned by a small company in Germany.

Few people know of the project and fewer thought it was a good idea to build and distribute pre-installed virtual machines.

Ubuntu Geek: "TestDrive is a project that makes it very easy to download and run the latest daily Ubuntu development snapshot in a virtual machine."

Chrome OS Geek: "Chrome has recently been open sourced by Google as a developer preview. Its very young, clearly has some issues and needs serious work, however it is usable and lots of people have managed to get it running in a virtual machine or via a USB key."