Apple gives Mac devs a WSL-ish thing to call their own

The name "container machine" is intended to convey that the feature combines both a container and a VM. The feature uses ...
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I Tried Using a Linux VM as My Desktop Computer, Here's What Went Wrong

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 ...
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I run Arch Linux as a virtual machine, and I wouldn't have it any other way

Now that I’ve spent a long time with different flavors of Linux over the course of my distro-hopping journey, I’ve started to gravitate towards certain distributions for my DIY projects. For example, ...
Bleeping Computer

Kali Linux adds VM-like snapshot feature to bare-metal installs

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 ...
ZDNet

How to spin up a Linux virtual machine quickly with Boxes

Imagine this: You're using one Linux distribution and you want to quickly deploy a virtual machine of another Linux distribution for either testing purposes or to have a secondary operating system to ...
InfoWorld

Microsoft Releases Update for VM Additions for Linux

Microsoft has announced that it has updated its Virtual Machine Additions for Linux to 2.0 for its virtualization platform. The company said that the Virtual Machine Additions for Linux are designed ...
Bleeping Computer

BlackCat ransomware uses new ‘Munchkin’ Linux VM in stealthy attacks

The BlackCat/ALPHV ransomware operation has begun to use a new tool named 'Munchkin' that utilizes virtual machines to deploy encryptors on network devices stealthily. Manchkin enables BlackCat to run ...