Imagine this: You're using one Linux distribution and you want to quickly deploy a virtual machine of another Linux distribution for either testing purposes or to have a secondary operating system to ...

One of the benefits of using a virtualization program such as VMware Fusion or Parallels Desktop to run Windows on your Mac is that anything bad that happened to Windows would only happen to Windows.

I have a perfectly working Lucid Lynx lappie with a VirtualBox with a Win2K guest for some testing purposes, the thing is, I need to access a couple of sites running IE 6 (don't ask) To access those, ...

SecurityFocus.com and Eitan Caspi have published an issue with the way VMware handles the guest operating system by allowing malicious programs installed under VMware to access sensitive information ...

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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 ...

Microsoft’s Virtual PC software has some new competition from Dublin, Ireland-based Lismore Software Systems Inc. Lismore on Tuesday announced the release of Guest PC 1.0, a new PC emulation software ...

Lately I've been thinking about this idea, not sure whether is a genius idea or a complete BS.<BR><BR>Lets say someone has lots of RAM and creates a 4GB RAM Disk, then installs a VMWare guest OS onto ...

If your VMWare installation and the guest OS meet the requirement, you can enable the Copy & Paste feature that works using the keyboard shortcuts Ctrl + C and Ctrl ...

Chrome OS is about to become even more powerful, with Google’s “Bruschetta” project adding support for using the Linux distro of your choice. One of the biggest shifts for Chrome OS in recent years ...

A little-known behavior in Chrome OS could reveal a user’s movements through Wi-Fi logs. Leveraging Chrome OS’s Guest mode feature, the attack would require ...