Goodbye, VirtualBox - I found a better, more reliable VM manager for Linux ...

The short version: VMware stood accused of illegally using Linux code in its flagship VMware ESX bare-metal virtual machine (VM) hypervisor. The story began in August 2006, when prominent Linux ...

I've made the complete switch...for the most part ...

I will turn down free beer software in favor of freedom software when both exist. If you don't know the difference, that's OK. You cannot see the source code for the video drivers from ATI, for ...

There are many reasons that enterprises may wish to use Linux desktops within a virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) broker. I outlined five of these in a recent article. Now that all major VDI ...

Upgrading to VMware Horizon 7.4 from VMware Horizon 7.3 Upgrading a VMware Horizon View Connection Server from version 7.3 to 7.4 can be accomplished within the Connection Server itself. Before ...

In last week's article, we discussed virtualization and its role in reducing server sprawl. We included VMware server as one of the products used to virtualize a data center. VMware also sells a ...

You can usually use raw device mapping to pass an entire disk to a VM, but I don't think you'll find a way to directly do so with a partition. Perhaps an iSCSI target in Windows would let you present ...

In a very quiet and fanfare free way, Microsoft released a package that contains the Virtual Machine Additions for Linux that is used with their Virtual Server 2005 R2 virtualization platform. The ...