VMware Workstation Pro offers superior performance in setting up and running virtual machines compared to VirtualBox. VirtualBox is simpler to set up, has a more intuitive user interface, and supports ...

Our Parallels Desktop and VMware Fusion shootout took a deep dive into the two most successful commercial virtualization products for the Mac, but many of you had questions about VirtualBox, the free ...

VirtualBox 5.0's new features add ease and flexibility, but VMware Workstation 11 leads in performance and convenience Oracle VirtualBox and VMware Workstation have been duking it out for several ...

A two-horse race: That’s how the market for general purpose desktop virtualization packages is shaping up, at least for the foreseeable future. With Microsoft all but abandoning Virtual PC (no updates ...

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, ...

Two years ago, we visited the subject of free desktop virtualization hypervisors. At the time, the two preferred free solutions were Sun's xVM VirtualBox and and VMware Server 2.0. Things have changed ...

The latest versions of Parallels Desktop, VMware Fusion, and VirtualBox bring Mac users ever closer to virtualization nirvana. Joe Kissell offers an overview of the current offerings and ponders the ...

May 20, 2008 at 8:30 p.m. PT On May 2 nd of 2008 during its CommunityOne event, and concurrent with the initial release of OpenSolaris 2008.05, Sun released version 1.6 of xVM VirtualBox as a free ...