Virtual machine software - software that either runs on the physical system or software that runs on a host operating system and allows other guest operating systems to run. In either case ...

Many of today’s cutting-edge technologies such as cloud computing, edge computing and microservices, owe their start to the concept of the virtual machine—separating operating systems and ...

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 ...

As I look at the hardware/OS system that surrounds our PCs, I find it wanting. What we should do is use virtual machines to isolate the OS from the hardware and allow a level of OS flexibility and ...

So many, in fact, that you can have hundreds of containers running inside a virtual machine! There are quite a few operating ...

Coming out of VMworld, I've run into many people who've been convinced that operating systems are becoming an endangered species and that shortly they'll be replaced by virtual machine software.

Windows XP running as a separate operating system in VirtualBox on Windows 7. Once you’ve set up a virtual machine, you can pop that USB stick into any Windows PC and open Portable-VirtualBox ...

I needed virtual machines for several reasons: We cover six UNIX and Linux operating systems, but our lab only had a Solaris system, an HP-UX host, and an AIX server. I needed to test and research ...

Containers try to achieve the same concept as virtual machines, but they eliminate duplication of effort between machines. Instead of loading an entire operating system for an app, Docker lets ...