Before buying a Mac and switching full-time to Apple’s platform, I had already deserted Windows for Linux. To this day, I’ve always got at least one Linux distro ready to go on my Mac in a virtual ...

I moved a VMWare image from one computer to another, both running VMWare server 1.01. When I moved the image onto the other computer, I (without thinking) had it generate a new unique ID. The image ...

Both Ubuntu and VMWare recently released upgrades — Ubuntu 8.04 "Hardy Heron" is available for download and VMWare Fusion 1.1.2 is also out. The problem is that the two don't play well together. It ...

Ubuntu Server will be one of the first operating systems offered to customers of VMware’s infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) cloud, with OS images that should be portable across clouds operated by ...

Shuttleworth opened quietly enough, saying, "Mission is to remove all the friction from deploying OpenStack. We can deliver OpenStack deployments with two people in less two weeks anywhere in the ...

VMware’s VMware Horizon desktop virtualization software suite will soon deliver virtual Linux desktops over a network, in addition to the Microsoft Windows desktops it has long provided for remote ...

It's a big product day over at VMware, which is expanding its VMware View client for Windows to also deliver virtual desktops over to Mac and Linux. VMware View is a virtual desktop solution for ...

Virtualization is a buzzword that's been making its way around the corporate IT circles for a few years. On paper, virtualization sounds great—you can make full use of those unused CPU cycles, ...

VMware is the most unusual and unexpected player in the industry to ship a Linux distribution. Here is an analysis of what forced the virtualization giant to make this move. Not long ago, VMware was a ...