VMware Workstation supports two mechanisms to create copies of VMs: full and linked clones. [Click on image for larger view.] A full clone makes an exact copy of the files that make up the VM. In ...

Matt Asay is a veteran technology columnist who has written for CNET, ReadWrite, and other tech media. Asay has also held a variety of executive roles with leading mobile and big data software ...

I daresay Windows 11 is a decent companion for your home lab journey ...

In a move likely to significantly impact the virtualization and software development community, VMware has announced that its Fusion Pro (Mac) and Workstation Pro (Windows and Linux) products will be ...

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 enabled nested virtualization for a handful of EC2 instances.… Nested ...

This content was produced in partnership with VMware. For the average person, virtual machines (VMs) can seem quite complex. In reality, they’re simple in terms of how they work and the applications ...

This post offers fixes to resolve the issue where users can’t connect to a Hyper-V virtual machine (VM) running on a Windows Server or client host machine. The ...

You can create Hyper-V VMs in Windows 11 using a built-in Windows app or a new developer-oriented tool. Both come with gotchas. Here’s how it all works. Though it may seem that virtual machines, a.k.a ...

If you need to run Windows apps on an Apple Silicon Mac, the two best choices are Parallels Desktop 18 for Mac and VMWare Fusion. Here's what you should know about the two tools. One of the rare ...

Anyone who frequently installs and uninstalls new software, tests beta versions of programs, or tinkers with the registry in Windows, often reaches the point where they have to completely re-install ...