OK, I get it now.
I read the title and wondered what use virtualisation would be on a Kindle.
If you've ever wondered what time-sharing, multics and Unix have to do with today's hypervisor technologies, or why you should consider the global environment when planning your virtual machine strategy, then you'll want to read The Register's A Brief History of Virtualisation, on Kindle. El Reg's Liam Proven takes us from IBM …
is there any particular reason you lot are suddenly plugging all sorts of Amazon products? Dropping advertising revenue? Unreasonable salary demands by the writing peasantry?
Personally, I find it a bit of a turn-off, but my employer would probably chalk that up to change resistance, so it may not be you - it's me. Really.
Well - I would read it... if I could buy it. Seems the folks at El Reg want to keep it all to themselves - and only those who have a .uk address.
If you have a *foreign* address, you can't buy from amazon.co.uk - you have to go to amazon.com - and it seems the publishing rights are only for the uk, because it ain't on the .com site. I sense a snafu here.. :-)
I picked this up and read through it over xmas - it's a nice background overall but I have a quibble with the content.
It implies that VMware's x86 offering only uses their original Binary Translation method, and doesn't leverage the improvements in Intel/AMD processor technology thus making the other x86 offerings superior for doing so - this hasn't been true since ESX3.5 circa 2008, and hardware assisted virtualisation is now often the default.