x86 virtualization (VMware)
Virtualización x86 (VMware)
- Date
- 1998-1999 · confidence high
- Place
- VMware, Palo Alto, California, United States
- Credited to
- Diane Greene, Mendel Rosenblum and Edouard Bugnion (Stanford/VMware)
- People
- 👤 Diane Greene1955–👤 Edouard Bugnion1970–👤 Mendel Rosenblum2000–
- Field
- Knowledge & symbols
What it is
Technique for running several isolated operating systems on a single PC server. It made it possible to consolidate servers and rent machines by the hour.
IBM virtualised mainframes in the 1960s; VMware brought it to consumer x86 architecture.
What it led to
- Cloud computing (Amazon EC2)
- Hyperscale data centres
- Containers and infrastructure as code
Built on
- Linux kernel1991
- IBM VM/370
- x86 microprocessor