Registering a virtual machine with the hypervisor is a handy tool that can be used when moving VMs between hosts, changing storage locations or even manual creation of virtual machines. Hyper-V 3 in ...

If you want to convert a physical server to a Hyper-V VM, follow the steps mentioned in this guide. Do keep in mind that this physical server doesn’t have to be a server; it can be any computer, be it ...

On Monday Oracle released version 3.2 of their VirtualBox software, which was part of their recent acquisition of Sun Microsystems. The update changes the developer references in the program, but also ...

After reading my article "Backing Up Live Virtual Server VMs," a couple of administrators asked me if it was possible to back up individual files or folders inside a running Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1 ...

Virtual Iron’s Enterprise Edition V3 is a virtual machine hosting platform that couples its open source hosting foundation with tools to convert existing servers into VMs and subsequently manage them.

With one new product released, and one about to be, server virtualization is becoming a reality in the low-end server space. How can virtual servers help you? While the benefits of virtual machines on ...

Microsoft says Windows Server updates released during December's Patch Tuesday will trigger errors when creating new virtual machines on some Hyper-V hosts. The known issue affects only Windows Server ...

Piercing a key defense found in cloud environments such as Amazon’s EC2 service, scientists have devised a virtual machine that can extract private cryptographic keys stored on a separate virtual ...

How many virtual machines can you fit on a host server? That's a frequently-asked question when IT pros consider which hardware options to purchase for their virtual hosts. In this tip, I share things ...

Microsoft's decision against releasing an expected January test build of its next version of Windows Server hasn't stopped the bits or information about the coming release from leaking. Over the ...