In a recent article, I discussed several key features I found most appealing in Horizon 7, VMware's latest virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) offering. At the top of the list was Instant Clones.

I have an older laptop with a 30 GB hard drive.<BR><BR>What I would like to do is somehow image this hard drive so I can use it as a virtual machine on my Macbook (using Parallels or VBox).<BR><BR>I ...

* Serverless backup or consolidated backup, which offloads backup processing from virtual machines to a separate physical server. * Snapshotting or cloning the virtual machines using software from a ...

Most modern computers are powerful enough to run entire operating systems within your main operating systems, which means virtual machines are more commonplace today than ever. Here’s a look at the ...