These days, everyone is excited about the promise of PC virtualization, but with so many different flavors out there, it’s hard to know where to start. The idea of reducing a fully functional ...

Do you primarily use Windows 11 but want to have a quick look at a Linux distribution like Linux Mint? Well, booting from a live DVD or USB stick is a convenient solution. The advantage of this is ...

Windows 7 is already a big hit for Microsoft, according to market-share tracker Net Applications, which shows it rising past all the extant versions of Linux and Windows except Vista and XP and into ...

Thanks to the backward, “all software owns the entire system” design of the x86 CPU architecture, PC client and server virtualization is one of the most challenging tasks facing system software ...

Extra processing power also lets users multitask more effectively. For example, one core could be used for surfing the Web, while the second core is handling an anti-virus scan. (Processor affinity ...

It’s easy to set up a virtual machine on your PC, creating a machine within a machine, using free desktop virtualization software from VMware. Here’s a look at the advantages, plus instructions.

Near the end of almost every year, dramatic reductions in the size and weight of typical business laptops and PCs spark a series of blogs and media stories about how drastically different "your ...

Microsoft has delayed until later this year the release of Virtual PC 7, the latest version of a program that allows Windows software to run on the Macintosh. The software maker said the software ...

Around the same time that VMware updated its Workstation product with a new refresh build, Microsoft also updated both of its hosted virtualization platforms, Virtual PC 2007 and Virtual Server 2005 ...

Security vendor McAfee has announced an agreement to use VMsafe virtualization APIs to build VMware-compatible security products. The VMsafe APIs will allow security vendors to build and sell VMware ...

Just glancing at MS's listed specifications I'm assuming they're grossly understated as with all their minimum specifications.<BR><BR>But that leaves me with the question, what specs SHOULD I look for ...

what is going to be the best virtualization solution for me wanting to use steam to play PC games (mostly L4D and L4D2 and others of the like) on my mac I would prefer not to use bootcamp- as I would ...