Earlier this year, a company called Parallels, Inc. got a lot of attention when it showcased its Parallels Desktop software for the Mac. The application &#151 which uses a technology called ...
Virtualization technology, whereby multiple operating systems can be run on shared hardware, is extremely well understood if somewhat inefficient in its use of resources. Just a few decades ago, ...
A virtual machine is a computing resource that uses software instead of a physical computer to run programs and deploy applications. It operates by running one or more virtual “guest” machines on a ...
Sun’s VirtualBox lets you install multiple operating systems, offering greater speed and ease of use than its competitors. Whether you prefer Linux, Windows, or Mac OS X, you can probably get almost ...
Mandriva said today that its upcoming enterprise version of the Linux operating system will include the open-source OpenVZ virtualization software. The Paris-based Linux distributor will embed OpenVZ ...
Windows isn’t the only operating system you can run on your PC. Provided you have space on your local drive, you can use multiple partitions to run different Linux distros, create storage partitions, ...