There are some other benefits to using an OS within a VM, like having a virtual drive that grows and shrinks based on what you need. If I need a bit more oomph, I can reconfigure my VM with more RAM ...

I will turn down free beer software in favor of freedom software when both exist. If you don't know the difference, that's OK. You cannot see the source code for the video drivers from ATI, for ...

The usual pretence made by people like Red Hat and Novell is that Linux is free, and what they're selling is support - but that pretence is wearing pretty thin. Here, for example, is a piece of email ...

Hyper-V in Windows 10 has a built-in tool called Quick Create that lets you automate the process of setting up new virtual machines. Here's how to use it. As someone who has worked in IT for what ...

In a very quiet and fanfare free way, Microsoft released a package that contains the Virtual Machine Additions for Linux that is used with their Virtual Server 2005 R2 virtualization platform. The ...

It's been a while since we've had a hardcore Geek Sheet installment, and I promise that this one will be a real winner. The LinuxICs for Hyper-V, which are in Release Candidate status and are ...

I had a couple Zenoss VMware appliances that run Linux that needed to have more space allocated to them. I knew just adding another hard drive wouldn’t solve the issue so I set about finding the least ...

Microsoft Research has announced a cloud-based malware detection service called Project Freta to detect rootkits, cryptominers, and previously undetected malware strains lurking in your Linux cloud VM ...

Need tools for comparing virtual machine performance across different platforms, but no money in your IT budget? Here are a few suggestions. Chris: For my benchmarking, I have to use free tools like ...

Sometimes free doesn't mean have to be a subpar experience. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Virtual Machines are instanced ...