Virtual machines are great for running another operating system on top of your desktop, like testing out Windows 8 or running OS X inside Windows. They can be notoriously slow, though, and using a ...
Many data centers rely on virtual machines (VMs). In some cases, those VMs are powered by the popular and free VirtualBox. VirtualBox admins enjoy a lot of flexibility, but what about performance?
Chris: I created several virtual machines with pre-allocated virtual hard disk files. I did this because I had heard that performance was better. However, my system's hard drive is about out of space ...