Advances in virtualization have made it simple to create copies of a machine. Because VMs are comprised of files, if you copy those files with virtualization, you create an exact duplicate of that VM.

VMware Workstation supports two mechanisms to create copies of VMs: full and linked clones. [Click on image for larger view.] A full clone makes an exact copy of the files that make up the VM. In ...

Virtual machines, simulated PCs with their own operating systems running within another computer’s software, are super freakin’ cool. (That’s a technical term, I’m a professional technology writer.) ...