Posts by Michael Bose

Hyper-V is a type 1 hypervisor developed by Microsoft that can be enabled on Windows machines or installed as a standalone operating system (Hyper-V Server 2016, for example). Hyper-V can run not only ...

Oracle and VMware are leaders in providing virtualization solutions in the modern IT industry. Oracle provides VirtualBox as a hypervisor for running virtual machines (VMs) while VMware provides multi ...

Sometimes a VM cannot be started, however you may need to access the data stored on a virtual disk used by a VM. This situation can happen after the unsuccessful installation of some applications, upd ...

In present day, VMware is one of the leading providers in virtualization technologies. Hardware virtualization allows you to run virtual machines with various operating systems including Windows, Linu ...

Any user who installs the ESXi hypervisor must set the root password, but users and administrators cannot change the ESXi default password if it gets forgotten/lost. This approach may not be the best ...

After installing a guest operating system (OS) on VirtualBox, the interface of the guest OS is displayed in a windowed mode by default. Moreover, the size of that window is usually not big, and if you ...

The previous blog post of our VirtualBox series covered VirtualBox update. After updating VirtualBox, it is recommended to update VirtualBox Extension Pack on a host machine and VirtualBox Guest Addi ...

File sharing servers are useful for organizations. Learn how to configure a server for file sharing in Windows Server 2019 using 2 methods – GUI and CLI.

When it comes to sharing files over the network, two terms commonly appear: CIFS vs SMB. Learn what these network share protocols are and how they differ.

In disaster recovery plans, failover is switching workloads to a secondary system to maintain availability. Learn about VM failover types, planning, and uses.