As a person who uses Linux regularly, often I am asked about my opinions about other operating systems, especially those coming from large companies located in Redmond, Washington. Here's the deal.

I do this from VirtualBox running within Windows, but now I'm trying to migrate the setup over to Linux. I first tried using KVM on Ubuntu 10.10 but ran into a KVM/QEMU bug. I then tried VirtualBox ...

Everyone likes to try new and shiny technology toys like the Windows 7 beta, but when the price is having to replace your existing operating system, that’s too much for most people. That’s when being ...

Major under-the-hood bug fixes and improvements to Oracle's open source desktop virtualization app allow Windows instances to run better and be debugged more easily Oracle delivered the first release ...

Maaan, and I didn't even change anything. Just rebooted. Both guests are on the same host. Host is wired to the router. Both guests are set to bridged. Both show up on my router with the correct IP ...

Running multiple operating systems side-by-side gives you the chance to test applications, run platform-specific software, and tons more without ever rebooting. It's also extremely cool. Here's how to ...

Recently, I had to test something with Windows 11. Not having a machine with Windows 11 and not having touched the Windows OS for some time meant I had to spin up a virtual machine with Microsoft’s ...