(1) A synonym for a language interpreter. See interpreter, Java Virtual Machine and Python. (2) Software that enables a different operating system and applications to run in a computer along with the ...

I often install and test different applications and features in Windows as part of my work. And most of the time, I don't necessarily want those new or unknown apps and features to affect my main ...

Hypervisors like VirtualBox or VMware can run just about any OS as long as you've got enough hardware power. However, just ...

For at least the past 20 years, virtual machines and enterprise-ready hypervisors were marketed, sold, and adopted as the future of server-based computing. Dedicated power-hungry servers sitting in ...

A few months ago, Microsoft let slip a forthcoming Windows 10 feature that was, at the time, called InPrivate Desktop: a lightweight virtual machine for running untrusted applications in an isolated ...

Company is best-known for its virtualization products that relate to server infrastructure. But with View, it's making a more systematic push into tech for clients. Gordon Haff is Red Hat's cloud ...

Then you have lightweight operating systems that, despite not bearing the most gorgeous UIs, are perfect for resource-starved virtual machines. Alpine Linux is one such distribution, and while it’s ...

Virtual PCs have important uses, such as providing a dedicated environment for testing new applications or enabling the parallel operation of multiple operating systems. But the virtualization ...

Traditionally storage systems and other storage related services have been delivered as customized systems. This was done to maintain performance and to reduce support costs to the manufacturers. As ...

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 ...

When you click the "Maximize" button in the upper right corner of the window while running a VirtualBox virtual machine, you might expect the application to enter full-screen mode. However, this isn't ...