Parallels and VMware may have the more popular virtualization solutions, but Oracle's free VirtualBox solution may be a useful alternative for those who need to run other operating systems on their ...

This past summer, I posted a primer to consumer virtualization with the promise of following-up with in-depth looks at the various hypervisors available on the consumer side. It’s taken me a while, I ...

Two years ago, we visited the subject of free desktop virtualization hypervisors. At the time, the two preferred free solutions were Sun's xVM VirtualBox and and VMware Server 2.0. Things have changed ...

Your chance to run a VM inside a VM, inside a cloud – which can mean WSL on a cloudy Windows PC Amazon Web Services has ...

Update to Oracle’s virtualization application adds remote control of cloud-hosted VMs and the ability to fully encrypt virtual machines. Oracle VM VirtualBox 7, the latest release of the company’s ...

On paper, both VirtualBox and VMware Workstation Pro let you run virtual machines for free. But things are a bit different once you consider the terms of the Personal license for ...

Virtualization has become a fundamental technology in the world of computing, allowing organizations and individuals alike to maximize their hardware resources, improve efficiency, and enhance ...

Virtualization is a buzzword that's been making its way around the corporate IT circles for a few years. On paper, virtualization sounds great—you can make full use of those unused CPU cycles, ...

May 20, 2008 at 8:30 p.m. PT On May 2 nd of 2008 during its CommunityOne event, and concurrent with the initial release of OpenSolaris 2008.05, Sun released version 1.6 of xVM VirtualBox as a free ...