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Timeline of virtualization technologies

In computing, virtualization is the use of a computer to simulate another computer. The following is a chronological list of virtualization technologies.

Timeline

Note: This timeline is missing data for important historical systems, including: Atlas Computer (Manchester), GE 645, Burroughs B5000.

1960s

In the mid-1960s, IBM's Cambridge Scientific Center develops CP-40, the first version of CP/CMS. Experience on the CP-40 project provides input to the development of the IBM System/360 Model 67, announced in 1965. CP-40 is re-implemented for the S/360-67 as CP-67, and by April 1967, both versions are in daily production use.

1964
  • IBM Cambridge Scientific Center begins development of CP-40.
1965
1966
  • IBM ships the S/360-67 computer in June 1966.
  • IBM begins work on CP-67, a re-implementation of CP-40 for the S/360-67.
1967
  • In January, CP-40 goes into production time-sharing use, followed by CP-67 in April.
1968
  • CP/CMS is installed at eight initial customer sites.
  • CP/CMS is submitted to IBM Type-III Library by MIT's Lincoln Laboratory.
  • Resale of CP/CMS access begins at time-sharing vendor National CSS (becoming a distinct version, eventually renamed VP/CSS).

1970s

IBM announces the System/370 in 1970. In 1972, IBM announces that virtual memory would be made available on all S/370 models, and also announces several virtual storage operating systems, including VM/370. By the mid-1970s, CP/CMS, VM, and VP/CSS are running on numerous large IBM mainframes.

1971
  • The first System/370, the S/370-155, is shipped in January.
1972
  • Announcement of virtual memory being added to System/370 series.
  • VM/370 announced – and running on announcement date. VM/370 includes the ability to run VM under VM (previously implemented both at IBM and at user sites under CP/CMS, but not made part of standard releases)
1973
  • First shipment of announced virtual memory S/370 models (April: -158, May: -168).
1977
  • Initial commercial release of VAX/VMS, later renamed OpenVMS.
1979
  • The chroot system call is introduced during development of Version 7 Unix, laying a foundation for container virtualization.

1980s

1985
1987
1988

1990s

1991
1994
  • Kevin Lawton leaves MIT Lincoln Lab and starts the Bochs project. Bochs was initially coded for x86 architecture, capable of emulating BIOS, processor and other x86-compatible hardware, by simple algorithms, isolated from the rest of the environment, eventually incorporating the ability to run different processor algorithms under x86-architecture or the host, including bios and core processor (Itanium x64, x86_64, ARM, MIPS, PowerPC, etc.), and with the advantage that the application is multi platform (BSD, Linux, Windows, Mac, Solaris).
1997
  • The first version of Virtual PC for the Macintosh platform is released in June 1997 by Connectix.
1998
1999
  • February 8: VMware introduces the first x86 virtualization product for the Intel IA-32 architecture, known as VMware Virtual Platform, based on earlier research by its founders at Stanford University. VMware Virtual Platform is based on software emulation with a guest/host OS design that required all guest environments be stored as files under the host OS filesystem.

2000s

2000
2001
2003
2005
2006
2007
  • KVM, a virtualization module integrated into the Linux kernel, is released.
  • January 15, 2007 InnoTek releases VirtualBox Open Source Edition (OSE), the first professional PC virtualization solution released as open source under the GNU General Public License (GPL). It includes some code from the QEMU project.
  • Sun releases Solaris 8 Containers to enable migration of a Solaris 8 computer into a Solaris Container on a Solaris 10 system – for SPARC only.
  • September 24, 2007 Microsoft releases the first public build of its hypervisor, Hyper-V, codenamed "Viridian".
2008

2010s

2011
  • The first stable version of QEMU is released.
2013
2014
  • The first public build of Kubernetes is released on September 8, 2014. When Kubernetes debuted, it offered a number of advantages over Docker, the most popular containerization platform at the time. The purpose of Kubernetes was to make it simple for users to deploy containerized applications across a sizable cluster of container hosts. In order to offer more features and functionality for managing containerized applications at scale, Kubernetes was created to complement Docker rather than to completely replace it.

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