The folks at Virtual Computer (see The Launch of Virtual Computer, Inc. andVirtual Computer NxTop Beta) have launched NxTop, a desktop virtualization product that aims to bring some order to what ...

Windows Virtual PC creates virtual disks for each guest operating system created in the application. Virtual PC stores these disks in individual virtual hard disk -- or VHD -- files. To enable Windows ...

That company, Virtual Computer, on Monday said it raised $15 million in its B-round of funding, with funds coming from Citrix and two venture capital investors. Virtual Computer develops software that ...

Amin Inshassi asked the Desktops forum for details about what can and can’t be done with a virtual machine. In a virtual machine (VM), software pretends to be hardware. You can thus load a “computer” ...

During her years at CNET News, Ina Fried changed beats several times, changed genders once, and covered both of the Pirates of Silicon Valley. The software industry is learning that virtual machines ...

Microsoft has delayed until later this year the release of Virtual PC 7, the latest version of a program that allows Windows software to run on the Macintosh. The software maker said the software ...

These days, everyone is excited about the promise of PC virtualization, but with so many different flavors out there, it’s hard to know where to start. The idea of reducing a fully functional ...

Yesterday we reported on an issue where purchasers of the Virtual PC 7.0 are unable to install a viable Windows operating system because the version of Windows included with Virtual PC 6 is ...

When Microsoft took over development of Virtual PC, after buying Connectix at the beginning of 2003, it promised Mac users a reason to celebrate. With Microsoft’s intimate knowledge of Windows, the ...

Windows Virtual PC enables a user to run virtualized environments on top of Windows 7. A virtualized environment, or virtual machine, behaves identically to a physical machine but is implemented via ...

In our house, we use Virtual PC for all the wrong reasons. The main user is my 15-year-old son, Matt, who uses it to play PC games on his Mac. Perhaps the best praise I can give to VPC 4.0 is that ...

Late last year, we told you about the Chungus 2, a virtual computer that was “built” within the blocky world of Minecraft. The initial processor design could play super-basic games like Snake on a ...