In August 2006, well-known Linux developer Christopher Helwig spotted Linux source code being used illegally in the VMware ESX bare-metal virtual machine (VM) hypervisor. Helwig, with the aid of ...

Virtual machines can feel rather sluggish at times – especially if you use the default settings on a Type-2 hypervisor. But ...

Creating a Linux VM in Hyper-V the Easy Way Hyper-V in Windows 10 has a built-in tool called Quick Create that lets you automate the process of setting up new virtual machines.

Steps to get a qemu based, hardware virtual machine running on the M1. It works very, very well with ARM Linux, and is, quite literally, the fastest Linux machine I've ever used.

There's a new Linux desktop on the horizon that wants to be your next old-school MacOS desktop clone. Does it succeed?

VMware Workstation is a $200 software application that creates virtual machines and allows someone to use some Linux or Microsoft Windows desktops to host other operating systems. For Linux users, it ...

Although Linux distributions are famous for low resource utilization, you do need at least 16GB of RAM and a capable CPU to run Windows 11 and a Linux VM smoothly.

Computerworld community member Charles Bushong tests and compares Windows emulation packages for Linux and finds clear differences.