Somehow I missed this - VMware Fusion is now free for personal use. I've just dl'd a copy of 12.01 and VMware provided a perpetual license. It's nice to have a free/gratis alternative to Virtual Box.

Need tools for comparing virtual machine performance across different platforms, but no money in your IT budget? Here are a few suggestions. Chris: For my benchmarking, I have to use free tools like ...

Much like a human lifecycle, each virtual machine goes through one that needs to be managed from birth to end of life. Here are some tools to consider. While most every virtualization admin already ...

Most modern computers are powerful enough to run entire operating systems within your main operating systems, which means virtual machines are more commonplace today than ever. Here’s a look at the ...

Those wanting to start developing apps for Windows 11 without updating or switching can download Microsoft's official virtual machines called "Windows 11 Development Environment" or WDE. The latest ...

Data center management software maker SolarWinds Aug. 25 released a freely downloadable virtualization management tool for IT managers that enables automatic shutdown, restarting and usage tracking of ...

We recently had a volume free space incident. As a result of that, it occurred to me that I have no practical way to observe the amount of free space on a VM's virtual disk over time. The "Datastore", ...

Microsoft's Windows 10 Technical Preview has been available for a few weeks now, and if you want to get a feel for what's coming but don't have an extra PC to install it on, installing it on a virtual ...