Virtual PCs have important uses, such as providing a dedicated environment for testing new applications or enabling the parallel operation of multiple operating systems. But the virtualization ...

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 ...

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 ...

Shrugging off challenges from rival upstarts touting better technology, virtualization leader VMware Inc. today released a free beta version of its software for creating multiple operating systems on ...

Cloud computing and virtualization software company VMware has announced that its flagship desktop software is now free for personal use. Individual users can now download and use VMWare Fusion Pro ...

Hoping to stay a step ahead of rival VMware, Citrix Systems is now shipping its XenDesktop product line of desktop virtualization software. Announced Tuesday at the company’s annual Citrix Synergy ...

Virtualization software vendor VMware Inc. is teaming up with a host of leading IT companies to work on open virtualization standards, the company announced Monday. As part of those efforts, VMware ...

Windows 11 Pro is not for everyone, and that’s the point.

The company said Monday that it will have "experimental support for 64-bit host operating systems designed for AMD64 and Intel Extended Memory 64 Technology [Intel EM64T]." One observer of the ...