The short version: VMware stood accused of illegally using Linux code in its flagship VMware ESX bare-metal virtual machine (VM) hypervisor. The story began in August 2006, when prominent Linux ...

Offensive Security has announced its implementation of a file system snapshot in Kali Linux, a feature designed to add VM-like snapshotting to bare-metal installs. The new feature, dubbed Kali ...

VirtualBox is feature-rich with broad Linux distro support, but may have slower performance on modern Apple silicon Macs. UTM is lightweight, optimized for Apple silicon Macs, and easy to use, but ...

If you want to explore one of the most flexible and powerful Linux distributions without disturbing the main system, try installing Arch Linux in VirtualBox. Arch Linux is a lightweight and highly ...

Install XRDP on Ubuntu to enable RDP access for Linux VMs. Open port 3389 and verify IP address for remote connectivity. Use RDP client with Xorg session to manage Linux alongside Windows VMs.

VMware is warning that ESXi VMs running on Linux kernel 5.19 can have up to a 70% performance drop when Retbleed mitigations are enabled compared to the Linux kernel 5.18 release. More specifically, ...

There are many reasons that enterprises may wish to use Linux desktops within a virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) broker. I outlined five of these in a recent article. Now that all major VDI ...

If you've ever suffered through a painful Windows update or watched in disbelief as your MacBook decided to slow to a crawl and switch its fan into jumbo-jet-at-takeoff mode, you know that there's one ...

Is there a method to prep a Linux system so it can be redeployed? I would like to have a patched and ready Linux system to deploy for testing. Maybe I'm not understanding Linux fully and there might ...