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 ...

If you are looking to use Linux Mint without creating a separate partition on your computer, a hypervisor such as VMware Workstation is the way to go. In this post, we will see a step-by-step guide to ...

Running Windows as a virtual machine in Linux may seems like unnecessary work until something like the Wannacry ransomware scare comes along. The PCs that were affected, all running older Windows ...

If you need to use virtual machines on Linux, try Virt-Manager. Virt-Manager is more reliable than VirtualBox. Virt-Manager is completely free and open-source. I'm a long-time supporter of VirtualBox.

Loading up virtual machines is an easy to accomplish task, but configuring them properly is an ongoing balancing act. It’s very likely that in a virtualized environment you will over/under provision ...

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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover the exciting intersection of Linux and handheld gaming. Not only did GNOME Boxes automatically detect that the ISO ...

Google’s Chrome OS has a new commit in its Chromium base code that seems set to allow users to run Linux in a virtual machine on Chromebooks. The commit in question is for a device policy that ...

VirtualBox is software that runs on Windows, OS X, Linux, and Solaris, capable of full virtualization. Full virtualization allows VirtualBox to run OSes entirely different than the OS it is running on ...