The best virtual machine tools for Windows: Run a PC inside your PC Whether for personal use or business deployment, there's very capable VM software to meet your needs. By Michael Rupp ...

You will need a significantly more powerful virtual PC if you not only want to run Office with high performance, but also want to use the image editing software Gimp or a 3D rendering program such ...

Your real PC running VirtualBox is called the host; VirtualBox is technically the hypervisor; and any virtualized systems it runs on the host PC are called guests, and are your virtual machines (VM).

As I look at the hardware/OS system that surrounds our PCs, I find it wanting. What we should do is use virtual machines to isolate the OS from the hardware and allow a level of OS flexibility and ...

It's easy to set up a virtual machine on your PC, creating a machine within a machine, using free desktop virtualization software from VMware. Here's a look at the advantages, plus instructions.

Decent VM software also allows some exchange between the host machine (the real one) and the virtual one. If you encounter a bug, you can switch back to the host, correct the code, and send an ...

It's easy to set up a virtual machine on your PC, creating a machine within a machine, using free desktop virtualization software from VMware. Here's a look at the advantages, plus instructions.

Choose it, navigate to a folder on the host machine that you can use to move documents or application setup files between your real and virtual machines, and click OK. The shared folder becomes a ...

Windows Virtual PC enables a user to run virtualized environments on top of Windows 7. A virtualized environment, or virtual machine, behaves identically to a physical machine but is implemented ...

How to Network With a Virtual PC. Many businesses have moved to the Windows 7 operating system, but some older business applications still require Windows XP to run.

Creating a virtual machine might sound complex, but it's actually quite straightforward. It essentially makes a computer that runs within your real PC, and will act as if it was a real device.