A virtual machine emulates a full computer, while a Docker container just emulates what's absolutely necessary for a single piece of software to run.

The virtual machine image is easily actioned by typing “Hyper-V Quick Create” into the start menu, or by choosing Ubuntu from the list of operating systems in the Hyper-V Gallery.

BackBox Linux is a free, open-source community project based on Ubuntu. Find out how to use the BackBox Linux distribution as a virtual machine.

I've a personal LAMP server that I'm in the process of moving the services of. Since the new machine has got VMware and more powerful hardware, I'd like to move the machine to a VM as I slowly ...

My primary development machine is a 2.8ghz pentium 4 desktop running a regularly updated ubuntu 10.10 linux distribution which I would prefer to not change. It currently contains plenty of disk ...

For example, we are going to rename the Ubuntu virtual machine to Ubuntu Renamed. To do this, we enter the command Rename-VM Ubuntu "Ubuntu Renamed" and press Enter on the keyboard.

With a virtual machine, you can dabble in all kinds of alternative operating systems, like installing Windows 10 inside Linux. Here's how.