I have an odd setup, which seems pretty straight forward to me. I've got a virtual machine host running Linux KVM (Ubuntu Server 14.04). This box has a few NICs. eth0 is tied to br0, and that connects ...

Microsoft today announced the "general availability" of its Accelerated Networking technology for Azure virtual machines, which is available for use with both Linux- and Windows-based VMs. General ...

Key questions about virtual-machine management. The ‘snapshots’ of images (including virtual-machine guest-operating-system states) must be tracked in terms of where they sit on the network, how they ...

VirtualBox and VMware default to NAT network type for virtual machines. You will be required to change the network type or forward ports if you are planning to run server software inside your VMs as ...

For a long time, the prevailing wisdom of the day has been that IT organizations were better off with dumb pipes. After all, the applications should be doing all the management, and the only thing the ...

Way back when virtualization was a new thing, virtual networks were simple connections that linked virtual servers and the occasional networking appliance. Now, however, things are different. Building ...

Tremendous shifts in networking research and development over the last few years have resulted in a whole new class of networking devices, more widely known as Software Defined Networking (SDN) ...