In VMWare VSphere, the Virtual Machine disks Consolidation Needed status is displayed in the Summary section if leftover virtual disk files or snapshots are not merged with the base virtual disk file ...

You may have encountered an error when opening a VMware virtual machine that says failed to connect pipe to the virtual machine. There are various instances of this ...

The release of Windows Server 2016 will bring a new option of building apps based on micro-services that run in Docker and other standard containers. Does that portend the end of the VM? The rise of ...

The virtual machines market is the foundation of the global digital economy. As businesses transition toward cloud-native, AI-driven, and data-intensive operations, VMs provide the essential ...

A recent film ignited a new generation of armchair epistemologists when it proposed that we could be living inside an elaborate computer simulation. While your philosophy major friends were quick to ...

Oracle VirtualBox, formerly Sun VirtualBox, is an open source virtualization platform that allows you to run multiple operating systems on a single machine. If you are switching from VMware to ...

Most modern computers are powerful enough to run entire operating systems within your main operating systems, which means virtual machines are more commonplace today than ever. Here’s a look at the ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. Virtual machines were the cock of the walk fifteen years ago, but they have fallen out of favor ...

Oracle launched another salvo in the virtual machine battle (see The battle over virtual machine software for a deeper analysis of the battle) by offering Oracle VM 3.3. As mentioned in that article, ...

Virtual machines can seem juuuuust a bit too geeky for most otherwise computer-friendly people. That's sad, because it's an easy, free way to try another operating system, or use those one or two apps ...