It’s easy to set up a virtual machine on your PC, creating a machine within a machine, using free desktop virtualization software from VMware. Here’s a look at the advantages, plus instructions.

Thanks to the backward, “all software owns the entire system” design of the x86 CPU architecture, PC client and server virtualization is one of the most challenging tasks facing system software ...

Windows 7 is already a big hit for Microsoft, according to market-share tracker Net Applications, which shows it rising past all the extant versions of Linux and Windows except Vista and XP and into ...

SimplyNUC recently released its most powerful AMD-powered mini-PC, the Moonstone, and I was lucky enough to get my hands on one! Spoiler alert: This thing is a beast in a very small package. [Click on ...

Intel Corp. will bring its Vanderpool virtualization technology to desktop PC processors several months sooner than originally planned, the company announced yesterday. Vanderpool Technology, or VT, ...

The company had previously said it would make Vanderpool available on 64-bit Itanium processors this year. In a statement, Santa Clara, Calif.-based Intel said it has been working with leading ...

I looked at the SimplyNUC Ryzen 9-7940HS processor mini-PC in a previous article and found its eight-core/16-thread Ryzen 9-7940HS processor very performant. This led me to believe that VMware ...

Near the end of almost every year, dramatic reductions in the size and weight of typical business laptops and PCs spark a series of blogs and media stories about how drastically different "your ...

We interrupt our scheduled topic (a discussion of Web browser stuff I started last week) to bring you a Network World exclusive Gearhead review of a new virtualization product … vDesk from RingCube ...

Around the same time that VMware updated its Workstation product with a new refresh build, Microsoft also updated both of its hosted virtualization platforms, Virtual PC 2007 and Virtual Server 2005 ...