Code 42, makers of the CrashPlan backup service for small businesses (but not individuals, see “CrashPlan Discontinues Consumer Backups,” 22 August 2017), has announced that, starting in May 2019, the ...

Maybe I'm just screwing this up, but I don't see how. I have a PC backed up to a VHD file. On a Windows 7 box, I have some version of VMWare, something from within the last year. I can create a new VM ...

If you use VMware in virtually any of its flavors, then you've probably become familiar with the list of files created in each folder you create for a virtual machine. Those files are used by the ...

I've got a 2008 (non-r2) SQL server that has been P2V'd into a vSphere 4.1 cluster. This is test SQL box, not a heavy hitter at all. Should be a great candidate to be a VM. All of the physical ...

One of my favorite Hyper-V features is its ability to copy a file directly from a host server to a virtual machine (VM) without having to leverage the network stack. This capability is useful in ...

Recently I was setting up some Hyper-V virtual machines for a project that I am working on. For this particular project I needed a few virtual machines running Windows 7 and an older version of Office ...

VMware this week unveiled a technical preview of Project Octopus, a new file sharing virtual environment that it describes as a "Dropbox for the enterprise." According to a demonstration video from ...

If VirtualBox stuck on Saving state, your machine is in the hung state. Kill the VM via the Command Prompt, disable Core ...

It may not deliver the same performance as a bare-metal setup, but it's good enough for most titles ...