Most job listings I've found require experience with VMware, so I decided to boot up one of my existing VirtualBox VMs in it and see how it works. I've been using VirtualBox on a daily basis for a ...

Since the release of Windows 10, Microsoft has released some significant updates such as the Anniversary Update, the Creator Update and the upcoming Fall Creator Update. These updates do more than ...

Since I work on server experiments fairly often, I tend to create new virtual machines, many of which end up getting destroyed when I’m done tinkering with them. Although Proxmox’s built-in VM ...

Last month we looked at how to set up nested VMs in Hyper-V on Windows Server 2016. Azure, of course, runs on Hyper-V and some regions already have some of their hosts upgraded to Windows Server 2016.

When creating a virtual machine, we are sometimes unable to go beyond the insertion of the operating system’s ISO file as the machine folder already exists and can not be overwritten. In this post, we ...

If you need to create and configure VMs on a regular basis, using Windows PowerShell to do so can speed up the process. Whether you need to test new or standardized server setups, Hyper-V gives you an ...

Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) are the mechanism that makes it possible to create Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) virtual machine (VM) instances -- here's how to create a custom Windows AMI.

In the Windows 10 era, new feature updates arrive every six months. Each one comes with a long list of new features as well as the risk that the upgrade will result in crashes, hangs, or other ...

Jack Wallen shows you a nifty trick for easily starting, stopping, pausing, and resuming your VirtualBox virtual machines on a headless Linux server. There’s a nifty feature that comes with VirtualBox ...

If you want to create a VirtualBox shared folder in Windows 11/10, you can follow this step-by-step guide. You can access the shared folder from your Windows virtual machine and host computer to ...