Virtualisation

[albjuve]

So, first Hi to all, 

my English is bad but i have just one question.

Where to use Vmware Workstation, what can i do with this, can someone tell me?

[doublehelix]

virtual box is the free open source virtual machine software for mac, linux, and Windows

 

It allows you to run an OS (like mac, windows or linux) inside another oS

it does this by telling the other OS fake hardware that it has virually made from your hardware. EX: you give it some ram. some hard drive space. some CPU allocation and then When the VM is running it uses those recources.

 

another method of virtualization is Docker. I will let you explore docker if you want but It Is more for developers who need to run programs in a clean environment.

[doublehelix]

So, first Hi to all, 

my English is bad but i have just one question.

Where to use Vmware Workstation, what can i do with this, can someone tell me?

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[kirashi]

@doublehelix hit the nail on the head. Er. Excuse the metaphorical analogy.

 

Virtualization software, such as VMware or VirtualBox, allows a guest operating system to run in its' own closed sandbox inside of your Host OS.

 

An example that comes up regularly is people who need to run Windows on their Mac OSX computers.

Normally, you can use Apple's built in software called BootCamp to install and get Windows running.

The catch is you've got to shutdown and boot into each operating system each time you want to change.

 

People don't want to reboot everytime just to change operating systems, so the other method is using something like Parallels software to run Windows alongside Mac OSX, without the need to reboot into each operating system.

This is incredibly useful as it saves time, and allows one to isolate say their personal-use environment (Mac OSX) from their secured work environment (Windows).