There are a lot of practical reasons to set up an OS like Windows 10 in a VM rather than using it as a native installation. If you have to deal with files you can't trust, need to test multiple OS ...

With a virtual machine, you can dabble in all kinds of alternative operating systems, like installing Windows 10 inside Linux. Here's how. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

Although I am probably best known for the blog posts and articles that I write, I tend to write a few books and produce a few video training courses each year. As you can imagine, these projects ...

Run multiple OS simultaneously with this handy program. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Virtualization is an ideal way of running ...

Although you can already download the pre-release version of Windows 11, upgrading your primary machine is not recommended since this new version is not yet ready. It contains bugs and issues that may ...

As I've noted in the two previous installments in this series, Windows 10's Hyper-V platform is the ideal way to test-drive a new feature update before trusting it to production hardware. If you've ...

If you want to create a VirtualBox shared folder in Windows 11/10, you can follow this step-by-step guide. You can access the shared folder from your Windows virtual machine and host computer to ...

How do you test Windows 11 for compatibility with essential apps without putting your work at risk? Simple: Use the built-in Hyper-V platform on your Windows 10 PC to create a virtual machine and ...

Microsoft makes the Windows installation media available for download, but you will have to put it into a format that aligns with how you plan to use the installation files. There was a time long, ...

You can create Hyper-V VMs in Windows 11 using a built-in Windows app or a new developer-oriented tool. Both come with gotchas. Here’s how it all works. Though it may seem that virtual machines, a.k.a ...

Running macOS on Windows is very much possible. PC aficionados may have already guessed it, but if you’re still wondering, we’re talking about running macOS on Windows using virtual machines. As the ...