As I look at the hardware/OS system that surrounds our PCs, I find it wanting. What we should do is use virtual machines to isolate the OS from the hardware and allow a level of OS flexibility and ...

That's it. Exit the file and save over the existing one, and you've got an immutable OS in that VM. When you boot it from now ...

This content was produced in partnership with VMware. For the average person, virtual machines (VMs) can seem quite complex. In reality, they’re simple in terms of how they work and the applications ...

VMware's virtual machine programs support clipboard sharing. The clipboard sharing feature shares the contents of your clipboard between your computer's host operating system and VMware's virtual ...

In a direct stab at his old employer, VMware CEO Paul Maritz launched today the next generation OS: the virtual datacenter operating system from VMware. Forget about Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V.

If VMware is on the verge of buying Novell’s SUSE Linux operating system the virtualization giant could abandon its anti-operating system crusade and compete more directly against the likes of Red Hat ...

The company said Monday that it will have "experimental support for 64-bit host operating systems designed for AMD64 and Intel Extended Memory 64 Technology [Intel EM64T]." One observer of the ...

With a new round of upgrades to the top virtualization packages for OS X, it's not clear yet which will be crowned king. Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 years, has been a contributing author ...

When it comes to operating systems, some people don’t like running just the one. This means that when you want to run a piece of software, you often either load up an alternative operating system or ...