Dual Booting Is Great for Games and Other Long Stints in an Operating System ... running a program like Virtualbox or Parallels to create an installation of your second OS on a virtual drive.

ATLANTA—Microsoft has announced that the next major update to Windows 10 will run its Edge browser in a lightweight virtual machine. Running the update in a virtual machine will make exploiting ...

Since its initial release, for example, suitably configured systems have used a small virtual machine running alongside the main operating system to host portions of LSASS. LSASS is a critical ...

A virtual machine ... being tied to a physical machine. In a VM instance, one or more guest machines can run on a host computer. Each VM has its own operating system, and functions separately ...

Virtual machines can seem juuuuust a bit too geeky for most otherwise computer-friendly people. That's sad, because it's an easy, free way to try another operating system, or use those one or two ...