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 ...

Late last month, Canonical made an astonishing announcement: an optimized image of Ubuntu Desktop is now available from Microsoft's Hyper-V gallery. This wonderful new feature is primarily intended ...

There are multiple ways to try any Linux distribution on Windows 11 or Windows 10 computers. However, Hyper-V is the native virtual machine app that you can use to install Linux Ubuntu on your PC. As ...

In a move that caused more than a few eyes to bulge and jaws to drop, last July Microsoft announced it was contributing code to the Linux community with hopes of having it included in the Linux tree.

If you have a PC running Windows 10 Pro or Enterprise, Microsoft recently made it much easier to run Ubuntu Linux. In September, they added a customized Hyper-V image for Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS, the Long ...

Windows 10: Containers are the future, and here’s what you need to know Your email has been sent With two use cases for its containers, and five different container models, it would seem that ...

At its recent Build conference Microsoft introduced the second version of its Windows Subsystem for Linux. It’s a major reworking of the original WSL concept, moving away from translating Linux system ...

Continuing to show support for the idea of containers, Microsoft today released Hyper-V containers to go along with its previously announced Windows Server containers. The difference between them is ...

In a move Microsoft says will further advance container technology to more deployment scenarios and workloads and allow developers to build more scalable apps, too, Microsoft today said it will offer ...

Question for the hive mind: On Win 10, if I enable VT-X, Hyper-V or WSL1/2 but any related VMs or containers are inactive, does it slow the system down? I'm asking because I only have 1 computer and ...