A two-horse race: That’s how the market for general purpose desktop virtualization packages is shaping up, at least for the foreseeable future. With Microsoft all but abandoning Virtual PC (no updates ...

When it comes to virtualization on the desktop, two products stand front and center: VMware Workstation and VirtualBox. The former is the long-standing original keeper of the flame, from the company ...

I've got a personal license for VMware WS 7/8 that I have been using on my work laptop. Seeing how stingy my current manager is with expenses I am no longer inclined to use my personal licenses or ...

Virtual machines are the best way to accommodate different application needs in a datacenter environment. Whether you need to run your apps on a specific platform, or just need to meet scaling ...

VMware Workstation 11 has the edge in performance and polish, while VirtualBox 2.3.20 leads in platform support and price. Few technologies have had a greater impact on business efficiency and IT ...

Two years ago, we visited the subject of free desktop virtualization hypervisors. At the time, the two preferred free solutions were Sun's xVM VirtualBox and and VMware Server 2.0. Things have changed ...

So, I don't have much virtualization experience shy of my own testing at home. I'm looking at changing jobs and most of them want some VMWare experience, so I figured I could familiarize myself with ...

May 20, 2008 at 8:30 p.m. PT On May 2 nd of 2008 during its CommunityOne event, and concurrent with the initial release of OpenSolaris 2008.05, Sun released version 1.6 of xVM VirtualBox as a free ...

During the first day of Pwn2Own Vancouver 2019, contestants were able to successfully hack into the Apple Safari web browser, Oracle's VirtualBox, and VMware Workstation, earning a total of $240,000 ...