Are you just getting started with desktop virtualization?  Let’s look at the new book VirtualBox 3.1 Beginner’s Guide, which is a book that may be a great help getting started with desktop virtualization quickly and easily. Computers today can be very complicated machines.  Even though popular mobile devices are being pointed out as the future in easy computing, there are still many reasons you’ll want to use a full PC for the...

Would you like to try out Ubuntu (or any other popular distribution of Linux) from the comfort of your Windows 7 (or Vista or XP) desktop?  With a quick download of the Ubuntu ISO and VMware Player, you can do this easily.  And, you can even run Linux apps side by side with your Windows Apps, and even see their icons in your taskbar!  This article is my latest on Virtualization, so check it out on How-To Geek to see how easy...

Several months ago I wrote about VMware’s release of VMware Player 3.0.  This was a major upgrade to VMware’s free desktop virtualization offering, adding support for creating virtual machines and running them in Unity mode.  Windows 7’s release, then on the other hand, boosted desktop virtualization’s position in the marketplace with XP Mode which brings a virtualized copy of XP to Windows 7 Professional, Enterprise, and...

What’s the best way to make tech simpler? Well, what’s better than detailed how-to guides on the very best of Windows, virtualization, apps, the cloud, and more?  How-To Geek has been doing a great job at this for some time, and they have many very helpful posts with vibrant screenshots and detailed instructions on ways to make tech work better for you.  And I’m proud to announce that I’ve joined their team!  I’ve...

I was doing a quick Bing search for the link to VMware Player for a previous article when I was dumbfounded to see the following link description: VMware is promoting their product with an unreleased OS … Chrome OS !?!  When I opened the link, it was quick to see that this was indeed the case.  The first paragraph on the VMware player page says: VMware Player is the easiest way to run multiple operating systems at the same time on...