Ever longed for a Linux distro to have with you at all times? Consider the super-fast, modular, and immutable Slackware-based ...

After being announced at Build 2026, Microsoft has made WSL containers available in public preview.

If you've been avoiding VM startups on Arch Linux, VirtualBox 7.2.12 finally fixes the annoying kernel freeze bug behind it.

Windows Sandbox isn't just for malware testing ...

A couple of months ago I installed a lab (a nested virtual lab running under VMware Workstation) with XCP-NG and Xen Orchestra. This virtualization solution should be familiar to you, for those of you ...

Hey folks, Vladan here from ESX Virtualization. If you've been following my blog since way back in 2008 (yeah, we're that old-school), you know I love diving into free virtualization tools, backup and ...

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Amazon Web Services has enabled nested virtualization for a handful of EC2 instances. Nested virtualization involves running a hypervisor inside another hypervisor. It is not an entirely bonkers idea ...

Microsoft has released LiteBox, an experimental open-source library OS designed to sandbox applications while reducing their exposure to host systems. Written in Rust and published under the MIT ...

Microsoft has introduced LiteBox, its new library OS for sandboxing Linux applications. The open-source project, released under the MIT license, uses Rust as its programming language and aims to ...