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Virtual Machines, or OS Virtualization
Office System VirtualAfter reading our article, you can impress your friends with the amazing amount of ..... Virtual Machines, or OS Virtualization, allows heterogeneous operating systems to run simultaneously on the same physical hardware. In a very basic form, imagine running Windows XP, Windows 2003 Enterprise Server, and Linux on the same computer at the same time. Each virtualized operating system, or environment, has access to disk drives, memory, video, input devices, and communications devices, all at the same time, on the same system
Using Virtualization, we have pre-created many operating environments such as Windows, Linux, BSD, and Solaris to name a few, with clean installs and hardened operating systems. These pre-created, secure environments also contain all the necessary tools for the type of customer environment and security assessment we will be working on. By using Virtual Machines, we can deploy our testing platforms within minutes, not hours, and feel confident they are secure and ready to function. In fact, we can carry many of these ready-to-go operating environments with us when we travel using high capacity external disk systems. Typically the size of a regular paperback book
Even if you are just curious about Virtual Machine technology, it can b a great way to learn many aspects of computing and network essentials. There are several major players within the Virtualization industry, such as VMware. VMware provides commercial Virtualization products, even for workstation or desktop environments. You can also visit Xensource, a great open-source (at no cost) Virtual Machine solution. They have a demo you can download, burn to CD, and boot from, or you can download the entire product and install it on a dedicated system.
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