The short version: VMware stood accused of illegally using Linux code in its flagship VMware ESX bare-metal virtual machine (VM) hypervisor. The story began in August 2006, when prominent Linux ...

Instead of relying on it to behave as my main OS, having Windows 11 in a virtual machine reframes it completely. Any specific ...

You point your browser at a local IP address or hostname and suddenly you have a full XFCE desktop running in your browser.

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 ...

There are many reasons that enterprises may wish to use Linux desktops within a virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) broker. I outlined five of these in a recent article. Now that all major VDI ...

In last week's article, we discussed virtualization and its role in reducing server sprawl. We included VMware server as one of the products used to virtualize a data center. VMware also sells a ...

VMware is warning that ESXi VMs running on Linux kernel 5.19 can have up to a 70% performance drop when Retbleed mitigations are enabled compared to the Linux kernel 5.18 release. More specifically, ...

After a year of provisioning Linux VMs with a new template, we have recently found that our default provisioned disk size is overkill, and the guests only need a fraction of the space we allotted. The ...