Recently, someone who is relatively new to Hyper-V e-mailed me to ask two thought-provoking questions. The first was whether or not it is true that Hyper-V virtual machines (VMs) have direct hardware ...

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 ...

I do a lot of work in VMware Fusion, building VMs for testing and development. There are a number of default VM hardware settings that I find myself changing for every VM I build -- number of ...

VMware Inc.’s Project Monterey, introduced this week at the company’s virtual VMworld event, will ultimately do a lot more than just make data center hardware more efficient. It’s actually a ...

VMware announced support for AMD secure encrypted virtualization-encrypted state (SEV-ES) in the latest update to its vSphere virtualization platform. SEV-ES provides hardware layer encryption of ...

Amazon Web Services is diving deep into the on-premises world with the Wednesday unveiling of AWS Outposts, which are fully managed and configured compute and storage racks built with AWS hardware ...

Last month, realizing the OS X Yosemite upgrade was coming, I began worrying how well existing software on my Mac would work with the new release. I was particularly concerned that a meticulously ...

Microsoft made a slew of virtualization announcements today, affecting both current and future products. Arguably the most important tidbit is that the company has removed the virtualization layer's ...

What is a virtual machine? A virtual machine (VM) is software that runs programs or applications without being tied to a physical machine. In a VM instance, one or more guest machines can run on a ...

One of the limitations of the VMware ESX Server product that competitors always point the finger at is VMware's limited list of supported hardware and software. The competition claims that VMware's ...