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 ...

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).

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 ...

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.