Loading up virtual machines is an easy to accomplish task, but configuring them properly is an ongoing balancing act. It’s very likely that in a virtualized environment you will over/under provision ...

If you need to use virtual machines on Linux, try Virt-Manager. Virt-Manager is more reliable than VirtualBox. Virt-Manager is completely free and open-source. I'm a long-time supporter of VirtualBox.

If you're looking to try out some alternative operating systems like Linux, it's pretty straightforward to do so on Windows 10 and 11 inside a virtual machine. The reverse is also true. If you're ...

If you are looking to use Linux Mint without creating a separate partition on your computer, a hypervisor such as VMware Workstation is the way to go. In this post, we will see a step-by-step guide to ...

If you want to explore one of the most flexible and powerful Linux distributions without disturbing the main system, try installing Arch Linux in VirtualBox. Arch Linux is a lightweight and highly ...

IBM is expanding its “buy-as-you-need” utility approach to Linux on the mainframe. In an announcement today, IBM said it will offer customers capacity as needed by creating virtual Linux servers on ...

It wasn’t long ago that we looked at easily creating Docker containers from the command line so you could just easily spin up a virtual environment for development. Wouldn’t it be nice if you could do ...

In a move that caused more than a few eyes to bulge and jaws to drop, last July Microsoft announced it was contributing code to the Linux community with hopes of having it included in the Linux tree.

Android developer Danny Lin (also known as kdrag0n), has introduced a new app called Nestbox that makes it easy to run Linux virtual machines on Google’s latest Pixel phones. In a nutshell, this lets ...

VirtualBox is feature-rich with broad Linux distro support, but may have slower performance on modern Apple silicon Macs. UTM is lightweight, optimized for Apple silicon Macs, and easy to use, but ...