A Virtual Machine is one of the cheapest ways to experience and use multiple operating systems on a single computer. Two of the biggest brands in the virtual machine industry are VMWare and VirtualBox ...

If we want to convert a Physical Machine to a Virtual Machine in VirtualBox, we need first to change the physical hard drive to a virtual one using a free utility called Disk2vhd. Then, since ...

VMware ESX uses datastores, or virtual machine file system volumes, to hold disk images and snapshots associated with a virtual machine in your business. These datastores are contained on logical unit ...

Converting virtual machines from VMware to other formats or platforms is a common requirement for various reasons, such as migration to different hypervisors, testing, or optimizing resource usage.

At least two major ransomware gangs are abusing vulnerabilities in the VMWare ESXi product to take over virtual machines deployed in enterprise environments and encrypt their virtual hard drives. The ...

Having a virtual machine on-hand can be useful for a variety of purposes, such as testing software or tweaks in a sandboxed environment that is separate from your primary operating system. A virtual ...

A new strain of Python-based malware has been used in a "sniper" campaign to achieve encryption on a corporate system in less than three hours. The attack, one of the fastest recorded by Sophos ...

Want to try ChromeOS in VirtualBox? Whether you’re considering buying a Chromebook and want to get a feel for the operating system, or you’re just curious about ChromeOS, a virtual machine is a great ...

The Kraken ransomware, which targets Windows, Linux/VMware ESXi systems, is testing machines to check how fast it can encrypt data without overloading them. Scattered Spider hackers have been ...

LockBit is the latest ransomware gang whose Linux encryptor has been discovered to be focusing on the encryption of VMware ESXi virtual machines. The enterprise is increasingly moving to virtual ...

VMware created the Virtual Machine Disk -- VMDK -- format to make it easier to share its virtual machines, or VMs, with products produced and sold by other companies. By default, Oracle Corporation's ...

One of the lesser-known capabilities of System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) is its ability to convert VMware virtual machines so that they can run on Microsoft Hyper-V. I will tell you ...