Virtual hard disks are typically associated with virtual machines and used to store the guest OS and all its data. But VHDs work brilliantly outside virtual machines, too. They are ideal for creating ...

Chris: I created several virtual machines with pre-allocated virtual hard disk files. I did this because I had heard that performance was better. However, my system's hard drive is about out of space ...

For ESXi installations, command-line options are available for virtualization administrators. For licensed installations with vCenter, the VI Toolkit is a very powerful interface to manage the hosts.

Without any sort of major fuss or media blitz, VMware released a 1.0 version of its Virtual Disk Development Kit (VDDK). The VMware VDDK is an open API and SDK that enables VMware customers and ...

In Windows 11/10, you can create, use, attach & manipulate Virtual Hard Disk Files (VHDs) as though they are real disks. This allows Virtual PC users to be able to mount their virtual disks within a ...

GottaBeMobile reader, Taxman, sent a few questions about virtualization. He writes, “Can you tell me more about how virtual box compares to the commercial products (VMWare and Parallels) on a Mac?

• Brien encountered a permissions problem with Hyper-V virtual hard disks when moving them between virtual machines. The issue arose when attempting to attach a previously existing virtual hard disk ...

The disk storage systems market is set for continued steady growth over the next four years, according to a report market research company IDC released Thursday. The growth will be fueled by the need ...