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Understanding virtualization

Understanding virtualization

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Understanding virtualization

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- There are a few things that have rocked the IT world more than virtualization. In this episode, I want to kind of get you through the concept of virtualization and show you how powerful and how amazing of a tool it is. So let's get started by taking a look at my screen. Hey, look, I'm on Linux right now, I'm running Ubuntu Linux, right? Well, watch this. What's really happening, friends, is I'm really on a Windows 10 system. What you're looking at right here is a virtual machine inside this computer, and it is actually a virtual computer. It has, as far as it's considered, its own CPU, its own ram, its own hard drive, its own USB ports, its own optical media, its own microphone and sound card if you want. All of this is built into this little device, which is being hosted on top of Windows. This is not a remote access, this is physically all right here on this computer. This my friends is a virtual machine. A virtual machine is a completely self-contained computer that is running…

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