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VMware Horizon (formerly called Horizon View) is a commercial desktop and app virtualization product developed by VMware, Inc for Microsoft Windows, Linux and macOS operating systems. It was first sold under the name VMware VDM, but with the release of version 3.0.0 in 2008 it was changed to "VMware View". The name was updated to "Horizon View ...
Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) Desktop virtualization is a software technology that separates the desktop environment and associated application software from the physical client device that is used to access it. Desktop virtualization can be used in conjunction with application virtualization and user profile management systems, now ...
VMware LLC was an American cloud computing and virtualization technology company headquartered in Palo Alto, California. [ 2] VMware was the first commercially successful company to virtualize the x86 architecture. [ 3] VMware's desktop software runs on Microsoft Windows, Linux, and macOS.
Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) is a free and open-source virtualization module in the Linux kernel that allows the kernel to function as a hypervisor. It was merged into the mainline Linux kernel in version 2.6.20, which was released on February 5, 2007. [1] KVM requires a processor with hardware virtualization extensions, such as Intel VT ...
A Linux-based system is a modular Unix-like operating system, deriving much of its basic design from principles established in Unix during the 1970s and 1980s. Such a system uses a monolithic kernel, the Linux kernel, which handles process control, networking, access to the peripherals, and file systems.
VMware Workstation is developed and sold by VMware, Inc. Until version 17.5.2 there was a free-of-charge version called VMware Workstation Player (known as VMware Player until release of VMware Workstation 12 in 2015), for non-commercial use. Ready-made Linux VMs set up for different purposes are available from several sources.
VMware ESXi (formerly ESX) is an enterprise-class, type-1 hypervisor developed by VMware, a subsidiary of Broadcom, for deploying and serving virtual computers. As a type-1 hypervisor, ESXi is not a software application that is installed on an operating system (OS); instead, it includes and integrates vital OS components, such as a kernel.
Teradici Corporation was a privately held software company founded in 2004, [ 1] which was acquired by HP Inc. in October 2021. [ 2] Teradici initially developed a protocol ( PCoIP) for compressing and decompressing images and sound when remotely accessing blade servers, and implemented it in hardware. [ 3][ 4] This technology was later ...