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 ...

The conversion of a Virtual Machine (VM) to a Physical Machine can help optimize the OS's performance and the system's physical hardware.

See interpreter, Java Virtual Machine and Python. (2) Software that enables a different operating system and applications to run in a computer along with the native OS.

A virtual machine (VM) is software that runs programs or applications without being tied to a physical machine. In a VM instance, one or more guest machines can run on a host computer.

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.

Virtual machines are usually restricted to a single box, but Portable VirtualBox lets you install VMs on a flash drive so you can run your PC-in-a-PC on any PC.

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 ...

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 ...