Video streaming giant Netflix Inc. is suing Broadcom Inc. over virtual machine patents owned by the company’s subsidiary VMware Inc. According to the lawsuit filed with a California federal court by ...

Virtualization is a widely used technology that allows users to run multiple operating systems, like Windows, Linux, etc., on a single physical machine. Virtual machines are the platforms or instances ...

Virtual machines beat sandboxes for testing untrusted software, and here's why I switched ...

The latest version of VMware Workstation Player includes the features needed to install Windows 11 as a virtual machine. Windows 11 is a tricky operating system to run as a virtual machine. That’s ...

After a restore operation, Hyper-V often cannot start the VM due to missing or mismatched virtual hardware references, broken file permissions, or corrupted configuration data. The restored VM might ...

Windows users have several virtualization platforms at their disposal, allowing them to run simulated (or virtualized) systems within a single PC, each acting as a completely independent PC ...

One of my favorite Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1 features is the included VS Writer, which leverages the Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) to back up running virtual machines. In order to take advantage ...

After reading my article "Backing Up Live Virtual Server VMs," a couple of administrators asked me if it was possible to back up individual files or folders inside a running Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1 ...

So as a poor man's backup for our VM's, I have a scheduled task that robocopies some of our VM's to a separate share. These are VMware Server 1.06 VM's.<BR><BR>I know Robocopy normally does delta ...

You should never have the host based AV scaning the virtual machines files, EVER. Run AV in the guest if it's required, and exlclude the folders where the VM files are stored on the host.