Better yet, modern hypervisors can run most of the popular operating systems inside VMs – including FreeBSD distros and even ...

Have you ever wanted to try a different operating system than what your computer shipped with? Virtual machines are a great way to do that without reinstalling your OS. Here are several operating ...

IBM is expanding its “buy-as-you-need” utility approach to Linux on the mainframe. In an announcement today, IBM said it will offer customers capacity as needed by creating virtual Linux servers on ...

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This article is intended mainly for developers who are new to Xen and who want to know more about it. The first two sections, however, are general and do not deal with code. The Xen VMM (virtual ...

Windows 10 support is ending, and I'm planning my move from Windows to Linux on both laptop and desktop. The biggest hurdle for me is the usual: software that doesn't have Linux equivalents. It's not ...

VirtualBox is software that runs on Windows, OS X, Linux, and Solaris, capable of full virtualization. Full virtualization allows VirtualBox to run OSes entirely different than the OS it is running on ...

Running Windows as a virtual machine in Linux may seems like unnecessary work until something like the Wannacry ransomware scare comes along. The PCs that were affected, all running older Windows ...