Everyone likes to try new and shiny technology toys like the Windows 7 beta, but when the price is having to replace your existing operating system, that’s too much for most people. That’s when being ...

While Microsoft makes far more revenue selling a retail box of Windows to an Intel Mac user than it does bundling the software on a new PC (hundreds of dollars retail versus around $30 for an OEM ...

Capable of running everything from Linux to OS X, Oracle's VirtualBox makes it possible to work on multiple operating systems at the same time. For instance, if you'd like to run Windows XP on your ...

Have you ever found yourself juggling between Linux and Windows, wishing you could seamlessly run both without the hassle of dual-booting? For many Linux enthusiasts, the need to access ...

If you need to run Windows inside OS X, you have three options: VirtualBox, VMware, and Parallels. Each has their own strengths and weaknesses, and different use cases where one’s better than another.

Windows users have several virtualization platforms at their disposal, allowing them to run simulated (or virtualized) systems within a single PC, each acting as a completely independent PC ...

Update to Oracle’s virtualization application adds remote control of cloud-hosted VMs and the ability to fully encrypt virtual machines. Oracle VM VirtualBox 7, the latest release of the company’s ...

Editor’s note: This image gallery accompanies our story Take Windows 7 for a spin with VirtualBox. Click through to that story for the full review. Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols decided to use VirtualBox ...