I have been looking at building a new computer similar to the hot rod on Ars for sometime now but have been stuck trying to figure out which way to go. I've sifted through the forums and other sites ...

Recently, someone who is relatively new to Hyper-V e-mailed me to ask two thought-provoking questions. The first was whether or not it is true that Hyper-V virtual machines (VMs) have direct hardware ...

I do a lot of work in VMware Fusion, building VMs for testing and development. There are a number of default VM hardware settings that I find myself changing for every VM I build -- number of ...

The conversion of a Virtual Machine (VM) to a physical one moves the virtualized instance of an Operating System and the associated or installed application software from a virtualized environment to ...

VMware, as a virtualization platform, provides various features or options to enhance the functionality and performance of the VMs. One such option is 3D acceleration, which helps us enhance our ...

VMware announced support for AMD secure encrypted virtualization-encrypted state (SEV-ES) in the latest update to its vSphere virtualization platform. SEV-ES provides hardware layer encryption of ...

Last month, realizing the OS X Yosemite upgrade was coming, I began worrying how well existing software on my Mac would work with the new release. I was particularly concerned that a meticulously ...

One of the limitations of the VMware ESX Server product that competitors always point the finger at is VMware's limited list of supported hardware and software. The competition claims that VMware's ...

vSphere 5.1 raised the maximum virtual machine (VM) size to 62TB. There is a catch, however: hardware version 10, along with the vSphere Web Client, must be used. That's OK, because I'm convinced the ...

What is a virtual machine? A virtual machine (VM) is software that runs programs or applications without being tied to a physical machine. In a VM instance, one or more guest machines can run on a ...