Oracle VM VirtualBox can useful for testing new operating systems, running programs that are incompatible with your computer, or testing how software or Web pages perform on several different systems.

Update to Oracle’s virtualization application adds remote control of cloud-hosted VMs and the ability to fully encrypt virtual machines. Oracle VM VirtualBox 7, the latest release of the company’s ...

Last week my colleague Mihaita Bamburic explained how to install the freshly released Windows 8.1 in VMware Player and Workstation, and I wanted to follow that up by showing how to set up the new OS ...

Nested virtualization is the practice of running a hypervisor inside of a VM. It is useful in lab environments for employee training or code development testing. Some organizations also use nested ...

VirtualBox is a free and open source, cross-platform virtualization utility that works on Windows, Mac, Linux, and other operating systems. Install VirtualBox on your computer and you can use it to ...

Constantly testing software and tinkering with a variety of Linux operating systems puts my multiple test-bench computers to constant use. Granted, Linux comes with a lot fewer security risks. But ...