virtualization

Fourteen years after Microsoft first shipped the Resilient File System (ReFS) with Windows Server 2012, the long-standing barrier that kept ReFS off system/boot volumes has finally been removed: Windows Server now supports booting from ReFS volumes. This change completes a slow, cautious...

A crafty alteration to a VM disk header can make a guest VM read sensitive host files — that is the practical risk discovered in CVE-2026-27211, a high‑severity information‑disclosure flaw in Cloud Hypervisor that reintroduces a long‑standing class of image‑format parsing problems into modern...

Windows Sandbox is one of those quietly powerful Windows features that does exactly what most users — and many IT pros — want: it gives you a fresh, fully isolated Windows desktop in seconds so you can install, run, and investigate unknown applications without putting your main PC at risk. That...

Google Play Games for PC can fail at the very first step with the message “An error occurred during installation,” and while that prompt is generic, the root causes are not — they almost always point to virtualization or network problems that prevent the installer from creating or populating the...

Virtualisation remains the quiet engine of enterprise IT in 2026: despite cloud and containers grabbing headlines, organisations still rely on hypervisors and VM platforms to deliver predictable performance, isolate workloads, and bridge the on‑premises / public cloud gap—and the latest ET CIO...

Windows 11 Home is still the pragmatic choice for the majority of users: it delivers the full modern Windows experience, solid built‑in security, and no‑friction maintenance at a fraction of the cost and complexity of Windows 11 Pro—while Pro remains indispensable for power users, small...

Windows 11’s split between Home and Pro still sparks the same practical question for buyers and upgraders: do you pay for Pro’s extra controls or stick with Home’s simpler, lower-cost experience? The concise answer from a detailed comparison is this—for most people, Windows 11 Home is the right...

Windows 11’s edition choice is simple on the surface but consequential in practice: Home delivers the full consumer experience with core security and entertainment features, while Pro layers in management, encryption, and virtualization tools that matter to developers, IT administrators, and...

Windows 11’s split into Home and Pro still causes questions: two editions share the same modern UI, Copilot, Widgets, Snap Layouts and gaming enhancements, yet one costs more and unlocks a suite of management, encryption, and virtualization tools. This deep-dive compares Windows 11 Home vs...

Windows Sandbox is the built‑in, disposable Windows desktop that lets you run untrusted installers and files without leaving a trace on your main PC — and while that claim is true in practical terms, it needs context: it’s an excellent low‑friction tool for short, safe testing but not an...

If you want Adobe Photoshop to open like a native app on your Linux desktop—no dual‑boot, no constantly switching to Windows, and no juggling separate VM windows—there’s a practical, community-driven path that makes it possible: WinApps. It ties a lightweight Windows virtual machine to your...

Microsoft has quietly moved key virtualization controls out of the Control Panel and into the Settings app: the new Virtual Workspaces page in Windows 11 centralizes toggles for Hyper‑V, Windows Sandbox, the Virtual Machine Platform, Windows Hypervisor Platform, Containers and related...

If you want to get the most out of a weekend of tinkering, your hypervisor is a laboratory—and not every operating system needs a full‑blown, multi‑gigabyte VM to be useful. This feature walks through seven operating systems that are designed or well‑suited to run inside VirtualBox, VMware...

Set Up Windows Sandbox on Windows 10/11 to Test Apps Safely (No VM Setup) Difficulty: Intermediate | Time Required: 15 minutes Windows Sandbox is one of the safest and fastest ways to test unknown apps, installers, or scripts on your PC—without installing a full virtual machine or risking your...

Windows Server 2025 arriving on Amazon EC2 changes the calculus for many enterprises that still run heavy Windows workloads: the OS brings cloud-first security and performance features, and AWS provides ready-to-launch AMIs and integration points so organizations can move faster without...

Kali Linux’s 2025.4 release advances the distribution’s long march toward a modern, Wayland-first desktop while adding a small but consequential slate of new offensive-security tools and NetHunter updates that will matter to testers, red teams, and virtualization-focused labs alike. Background /...

Microsoft is closing 2025 with a sizeable Windows 11 update: a preview build released December 1 has already started surfacing a slate of UI polish, Copilot integrations, virtualization controls, gaming improvements and hardware-gated AI features — and Microsoft plans to roll the final Patch...

A flaw in libvirt causes external inactive snapshots created for shut-down virtual machines to be written with world-readable permissions, allowing any local, unprivileged user on the host to read guest disk contents and resulting in a medium-severity information disclosure vulnerability tracked...

A small, surgical kernel fix landed in November that closes a subtle but real crash risk in the Linux mount subsystem: CVE‑2025‑40195 addresses a NULL‑pointer handling error where mnt_ns_release can be invoked with a NULL argument from the listmount cleanup path. The change is small — a...

A small-but-critical Linux kernel change has quietly landed that protects systems running AMD Zen4 client processors from a surprising stability hazard: several Zen4 client SoCs were advertising support for virtualized VMLOAD/VMSAVE instructions, and when those instructions were actually used...