Cockpit offers an easy way to manage virtual machines. Once installed, this method is easy and versatile. Cockpit is free to use. I recently wrote about my migration away from VirtualBox to ...

Powerful Linux-native virtualization for users comfortable with the tools around it.

I recently noticed VMware's (second) free hypervisor, a commentary by Gordon Haff of CNET (one of ZDnet's sister companies). He offered an interesting analysis of VMware's recent move to make it's ...

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 ...

BackBox Linux is a free, open-source community project based on Ubuntu. Find out how to use the BackBox Linux distribution as a virtual machine. Several Linux distributions are available nowadays for ...

We took Gnome Boxes for a quick spin—it has promise but needs more work. I generally describe virt-manager as “simple”—and in many ways it’s much simpler than Boxes is—but there are different ways to ...

Windows 10 support is ending, and I'm planning my move from Windows to Linux on both laptop and desktop. The biggest hurdle for me is the usual: software that doesn't have Linux equivalents. It's not ...

One of the most popular questions long-time Linux users have been asked is, “How do I create a network share that Windows can see?“, and it’s for good reason. Creating a network share in Linux is a ...