Be it Windows, Linux, Solaris, Mac OS or some other ill-conceived lump of bits and bytes, a true virtual machine OS is what we want.

Qubes OS defines itself modestly as "a reasonably secure operating system." It might actually be one of the safest operating systems, often used by pros who are most concerned with computer security.

This is true. After doing a few simple searches on the Internet, there were dozens of people posting about running Mac OS X inside their VMware virtual machines.

While Chrome OS is far from ready for the regular user, lots of us are aching to play around a little with Google's young operating system. This virtual machine-friendly build looks like a good ...

See thin client, virtual machine monitor, virtualization, application virtualization and OS virtualization. Non-Virtual vs. Virtual Each guest OS communicates with the hardware via the VM monitor.

As I look at the hardware/OS system that surrounds our PCs, I find it wanting. What we should do is use virtual machines to isolate the OS from the hardware and allow a level of OS flexibility and ...

A new open-source operating system will come with the option of creating one-time, disposable virtual machines on the fly as a way to protect against malicious files. Invisible Things Lab is ...