You have many options for deploying virtual machines. But here's one method you should become familiar with, as it'll help you when the other options become obsolete. You have likely deployed hundreds ...

VMware Workstation supports two mechanisms to create copies of VMs: full and linked clones. [Click on image for larger view.] A full clone makes an exact copy of the files that make up the VM. In ...

For both configurations, the guest can be any Windows-supported guest operating system. Keep in mind that newer Windows operating systems may support enlightenments that improve performance. The most ...

Virtualization has swept through the data center in recent years, enabling IT transformation and serving as the secret sauce behind cloud computing. Now it’s time to examine what’s next for ...

It's that time of year: a new Windows release is coming, with Mac virtualization application updates in tow. You'd think there's only so much you could do with a program that hosts another OS, but ...

I'm thinking about creating some coding tutorials and I would like to record an introductory chapter showing how to set up your environment from scratch. I can get a Windows Server VM on AWS/Azure by ...

Depending on whom you talk to, desktop virtualization is either the hottest trend in IT or an expensive notion with limited appeal Desktop virtualization harks back to the good old mainframe days of ...