Virtual Computer just might have a perfect solution to the XP-to-Windows 7 upgrade problem: its new, affordable, (and very cool) bare metal desktop hypervisor. The desktop hypervisor supports Windows ...

JPC is a pure Java emulation of an x86 PC with fully virtual peripherals. And it can run anywhere that has a JVM, whether x86, RISC, mobile-phone or set-top box. It has been developed since August ...

I’m using Microsoft Word to write this column. But the version of Word executing on my laptop today isn’t really installed on my machine: It was streamed to me by Softricity Inc.’s SoftGrid Server in ...

Virtual PCs have important uses, such as providing a dedicated environment for testing new applications or enabling the parallel operation of multiple operating systems. But the virtualization ...

In a move likely to significantly impact the virtualization and software development community, VMware has announced that its Fusion Pro (Mac) and Workstation Pro (Windows and Linux) products will be ...

For the past six months, our offices have been part of the brave new world of virtualization. Not of servers, storage or networks, but of the next-generation desktop. For the past six months, our ...

Windows allows you to install other operating systems on your computer and run them in parallel to the Windows OS using Virtualization technology. This technology enables you to run another operating ...

Hibernation lets you save the current state of a virtual machine to the operating system disk, allowing seamless restoration when needed. However, we’ve observed that in certain setups, especially ...