VMware hopes its vSphere 5 virtualisation suite will encourage small businesses to use its hypervisor by quadrupling the power available to virtual machines and eliminating the need for a dedicated ...

VMware vSphere 5.5, the latest release of VMware’s flagship virtualization hypervisor and central management server, has something for companies of all sizes. Usability and speed enhancements to the ...

Few virtual computer environments are as stable, popular and rich in features as VMware. I've been a fan and user of VMware Workstation since version 2.0. I use it for testing network applications, ...

VMware 5.0 ships with a new feature known as VM Storage DRS. Though you're probably more familiar with host DRS, don't confuse the two. Storage DRS' design is to take some pressure off of VMware ...

In vSphere 5, VMware is moving from a licensing model that's based on the number of server cores to one that's based on the amount of vRAM, or memory that customers allocate to virtual machines on the ...

I have a dual boot ubuntu/winxp. I loaded vmware 5 in ubuntu Hoary. I tried to set up a virtual machine for winxp. When I was finished gurb would not load ...

With the release of VMware vSphere 5.1, VMware’s product line underwent some naming and positioning changes. In the past, there were two different bare-metal hypervisors, one free and one sold as part ...

VMware today said its virtual-machine infrastructure software, vSphere 5.0, has achieved certification under what’s known as the Common Criteria program, a U.S.-supported international effort to test ...

VMware vSphere 5 introduced a set of virtual machine (VM) icons to help virtualisation admins identify the different types of objects in their vCenter inventory. Although that’s good news, a bug in ...

VMware on Thursday announced its new virtualization software Fusion 5, with 70 new features including a design that takes advantage of the latest features in Mountain Lion, and optimization for ...