Cloud management platforms have recently been expanding support for Microsoft's Hyper-V virtualization platform, representing Microsoft's continued efforts to chip away at VMware's dominance in ...

Although I have used nested Hyper-V several times, I've never considered whether it is possible to do nested virtualization in Windows 10 Hyper-V. I guess I never really had a good use case for it.

Nested virtualization isn't a feature enabled system wide; rather, you create a VM and expose the virtualization features on the virtual processors on that VM, which then allows you to run Hyper-V in ...

True to form, Microsoft bundles the full gamut of virtualization capabilities into the operating system. With Windows Server 2012, or the free Hyper-V Server 2012, you can create high-availability ...

Competition between VMware and Microsoft got a little tighter on Thursday with the release of Windows Server 2008 R2, which includes a major update to Microsoft’s Hyper-V virtualization software.

Last Thursday, Microsoft released the final version of Hyper-V, the much anticipated built-in hypervisor for Windows Server 2008. Back in February, we had a look at a late beta release, and we ...

With the release of Windows Server 2012 yesterday, Microsoft significantly updated its Hyper-V virtualization platform. Available both as part of Server 2012 and as a free (as in beer) standalone ...

Since Hyper-V was designed as a robust server-based virtualization tool, it offers several advantages over Windows Virtual PC. Hyper-V can support non-Microsoft operating systems such as Linux.

Hyper-V, Microsoft’s answer to VMware’s popular hypervisor, will continue to require 64-bit processors, as it always has, while adding new hardware virtualization requirements.