ZDNET's key takeaways Running Linux from a USB drive is possible.You can boot just about any distribution you want from ...

Virtualization is a widely used technology that allows users to run multiple operating systems, like Windows, Linux, etc., on a single physical machine. Virtual machines are the platforms or instances ...

The market now boasts at least three strong ways to go: Apple’s own Boot Camp on the Leopard OS, VMware Fusion or Parallels. The Test Center looked at all three to figure it out. These solutions ...

[Voltagex] was fed up with BSODs on his Windows machine due to a buggy PL2303 USB/serial device driver. The Linux PL2303 driver worked just fine, though. A weakling would simply reboot into Linux.

I have a Supermicro X11SCL-IF, which has run TrueNAS for several years, UEFI booting off a pair of small SSDs. All the drives for the TrueNAS install are connected to the usual suspect, an LSI HBA in ...

The "Bootable" legacy ISO you've used is in fact not bootable, it relies on CDROM emulation provided by BIOS. VMs don't usually do this sort of emulation. If you set the guest OS to something like ...

How a Hyper-V VM boots up will dictate a lot, especially if optical media are interchanged. IT pro Rick Vanover shows a few ways to manage boot order for Hyper-V virtual machines in this post. Hyper-V ...

So, you've been hearing all this buzz about Ubuntu for a while now and you finally want to take it for a spin? While dual booting Ubuntu with Windows is fairly straightforward, it can seem like a ...

The conversion of a Virtual Machine (VM) to a physical one moves the virtualized instance of an Operating System and the associated or installed application software from a virtualized environment to ...