When starting a virtual machine using VMware Workstation or Fusion, you may have seen a pop saying you are running this virtual machine with side channel mitigations enabled. In this post, we will ...

Hyper-V in Windows 10 has a built-in tool called Quick Create that lets you automate the process of setting up new virtual machines. Here's how to use it. As someone who has worked in IT for what ...

First and foremost, we will enable USB in VMware Workstation to allow the virtual machine to detect and use USB devices connected to the host system. This setting must be enabled, and here’s how to do ...

I do a lot of work in VMware Fusion, building VMs for testing and development. There are a number of default VM hardware settings that I find myself changing for every VM I build -- number of ...

There are a few reasons why a VM might be placed in a saved state, but the most common is that it needs to be backed up. Here's how to fix this. One of the things that I have occasionally been asked ...

Setting up the Horizon Connection Server begins with creating a Windows Server-based VM on the designated management network, assigning a static IP, and downloading the Horizon installer. Running the ...

So we are looking at one of our UCS blades (B200M2) running a server 2012 vm on esx5.1 and getting every bit of performance out of it we can. Below are the power related settings, we are not concerned ...

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 ...