I often install and test different applications and features in Windows as part of my work. And most of the time, I don't necessarily want those new or unknown apps and features to affect my main ...

Virtual PCs have important uses, such as providing a dedicated environment for testing new applications or enabling the parallel operation of multiple operating systems. But the virtualization ...

Long used in IT to extend computing system capabilities, hypervisor technology enables the creation of virtual machines (VMs). If you’re not familiar with VMs, they are essentially virtual computers ...

How to install BackBox Linux distribution as a virtual machine Your email has been sent Several Linux distributions are available nowadays for security and penetration testing. BackBox Linux is one of ...

You can create Hyper-V VMs in Windows 11 using a built-in Windows app or a new developer-oriented tool. Both come with gotchas. Here’s how it all works. Though it may seem that virtual machines, a.k.a ...

If you’re a VMware shop you’ll definitely want to check out the new beta release of VMware Workstation 5. This release is exciting because it addresses one of the big irritations in dealing with ...

Virtualization is one of the hottest topics in the IT industry, and for good reason. Server virtualization brings many benefits: hardware consolidation, better resource utilization, lower capital and ...

Most of us are familiar with virtual machines (VMs) as a way to test out various operating systems, reliably deploy servers and other software, or protect against potentially malicious software. But ...

Disk images for Microsoft's Windows 11 Development Environment virtual machines have suddenly become unavailable. As of Oct. 23, all four variants of these virtual machines—Hyper-V, Parallels for Mac, ...

If you ask IT shops and organizations if they are using server virtualization, I’d bet that more than 90 percent would answer in the affirmative. But while most organizations are virtualizing, many ...

The conversion of a Virtual Machine (VM) to a physical one moves the virtualized instance of an Operating System and the associated or installed application software from a virtualized environment to ...