OK, so my new Mac will arrive next week. Can power users fill me in on best practices for setting it up? [more inside]
posted by Admiral Haddock on Apr 17, 2009 - 16 answers

How does Google run their data centers? I remember watching a Q&A with someone at Google trying to recruit kids at a college. One of them asked what kind of hardware they run on, he responded that they buy commodity rack servers off rackservers.com (I forget the exact generic domain he gave). Does this mean they use cheap rack servers with direct-attached storage? How does this work? [more inside]
posted by geoff. on Jan 27, 2009 - 21 answers

What are the alternatives on converting a physical computer to a virtual machine that would run (preferably) on a Virtual Box emulator? [more inside]
posted by fcoury on Dec 29, 2008 - 3 answers

Does anyone have experience in using ThinApp in a corporate environment? Does it end up being trouble or does it just work? [more inside]
posted by geoff. on Dec 8, 2008 - 1 answer

What do I need to do to prep my MacBook Pro for running Vista as a virtual machine? [more inside]
posted by photomusic86 on Nov 25, 2008 - 10 answers

What is the best/safest Windows 7 Test Setup? Virtualization? Partition an HD? [more inside]
posted by xxnopiratesxx on Oct 30, 2008 - 5 answers

How can I make VMWare Fusion recognize my additional (physical) hard disks? [more inside]
posted by charlesroper on Aug 20, 2008 - 8 answers

We need to buy two rackmount servers that will play nice with Xen (and Linux). Budget: approx $10k. Can you suggest a configuration, brand, and/or vendor? [more inside]
posted by fishfucker on Jan 28, 2008 - 30 answers

I need some help with running Windows on my Mac. [more inside]
posted by dondiego87 on Nov 4, 2007 - 7 answers

Is it possible to create a virtual Windows machine on a Debian box without X, then access the virtual machine remotely? Basically, I want to have a headless Debian server running virtual machines. I'm sure it's possible, and I've done similar things inside of X, but how would I go about doing it without X? Qemu? VMWare? Virtualbox?
posted by cdmwebs on Oct 8, 2007 - 11 answers

VMFilter: Talk to me about virtual machines on Ubuntu. [more inside]
posted by fogster on Sep 12, 2007 - 9 answers

LAMPFilter: Which VPS solution (Virtuozzo, VMware, freeVPS, etc) is recommended for a small web-hosting company? [more inside]
posted by afx114 on Feb 16, 2007 - 6 answers

I'm looking to build a Virtual Machine friendly PC box. I'm hoping to spend no more then $600 on it to start (that will not include a moniter; I don't need one), but the key is to have it be quite expandable in the future (say 1 to 1.5 years). I don't need a lot of starting RAM, just enough to run one or two low demand VMs (one with XP on it). Any good suggestions for what I should look to buy (full specs please)? I assume I should be looking into the newer chips, right? Thank you!
posted by TrueVox on Sep 4, 2006 - 7 answers

What are the best community (news, blogs, message boards, etc.) sites related to virtualization and virtual machines?
posted by EnormousTalkingOnion on Apr 13, 2006 - 4 answers

Is VirtualPC less secure than an actual PC? [more inside] [more inside]
posted by kirkaracha on Jan 30, 2004 - 4 answers