Recently, someone who is relatively new to Hyper-V e-mailed me to ask two thought-provoking questions. The first was whether or not it is true that Hyper-V virtual machines (VMs) have direct hardware ...

I have been looking at building a new computer similar to the hot rod on Ars for sometime now but have been stuck trying to figure out which way to go. I've sifted through the forums and other sites ...

For virtual machines that are used in VMware Infrastructure 3, there is some amount of intervention required to get the machine to work with all of the features of ...

I do a lot of work in VMware Fusion, building VMs for testing and development. There are a number of default VM hardware settings that I find myself changing for every VM I build -- number of ...

The conversion of a Virtual Machine (VM) to a physical one moves the virtualized instance of an Operating System and the associated or installed application software from a virtualized environment to ...

Besides host profiles, VMware vCenter Update Manager (VUM) has received a shot in the arm to become a more important component of the overall suite (see Figure 2). VUM can now perform upgrades for ...

One of the limitations of the VMware ESX Server product that competitors always point the finger at is VMware's limited list of supported hardware and software. The competition claims that VMware's ...