Recently, someone who is relatively new to Hyper-V e-mailed me to ask two thought-provoking questions. The first was whether or not it is true that Hyper-V virtual machines (VMs) have direct hardware ...

To install Linux Mint on your VMware Workstation, begin by creating a new virtual machine within the software, selecting your ...

I do a lot of work in VMware Fusion, building VMs for testing and development. There are a number of default VM hardware settings that I find myself changing for every VM I build -- number of ...

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 ...

VMware announced support for AMD secure encrypted virtualization-encrypted state (SEV-ES) in the latest update to its vSphere virtualization platform. SEV-ES provides hardware layer encryption of ...

Amazon Web Services is diving deep into the on-premises world with the Wednesday unveiling of AWS Outposts, which are fully managed and configured compute and storage racks built with AWS hardware ...

Last month, realizing the OS X Yosemite upgrade was coming, I began worrying how well existing software on my Mac would work with the new release. I was particularly concerned that a meticulously ...

VMware Inc.’s Project Monterey, introduced this week at the company’s virtual VMworld event, will ultimately do a lot more than just make data center hardware more efficient. It’s actually a ...

Microsoft made a slew of virtualization announcements today, affecting both current and future products. Arguably the most important tidbit is that the company has removed the virtualization layer's ...

What is a virtual machine? A virtual machine (VM) is software that runs programs or applications without being tied to a physical machine. In a VM instance, one or more guest machines can run on a ...