Virtual machine Software

Briefly

Virtual machines use specific software to simulate a computer system with hardware system functions in reality, and virtual machines run in a completely isolated environment. A real computer is called a "physical machine", whereas a computer that is virtual by virtual machine software is called a "virtual machine."

Installing Linux with virtual machines is a good choice, and virtual machines are convenient for beginners, such as reloading systems, hard disk partitioning, and even virus testing. If you accidentally put the virtual machine system toss crash, so as not to start, as long as the physical machine is not damaged, you can virtual a new computer to practice again, without worrying about computer damage. Each virtual machine can be installed with different versions for comparison and experimentation. For a service provider, virtual machines can take full advantage of hardware and software resources, save a lot of hardware procurement costs, and facilitate the component's own network.

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• Virtual machine Software
• Popular Virtual machine software
• installing VMware
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Virtual machine Software

Virtual machine software can be on the user's operating system (for example: WIN10) virtual out of several computers, each computer has its own CPU, hard disk, network card and other hardware devices, you can install a variety of computer software. These virtual machines work together to access network resources using the hardware in the computer. Each virtual machine can have a separate operating system installed.

A virtual machine can install a Windows family, or it can install various distributions of Linux, and each system can run against each other without interference, and if a single system crashes, it does not affect other systems. Virtual machine can easily add and delete hardware, increase the hardware will not increase the cost of users. Virtual machines use the same way as normal computer use, it is a lot more than one swoop. In short, the virtual machine allows ordinary users to have more than one computer, so that some destructive experiments can be easily carried out, saving a lot of costs.

Note: virtual machines cannot be virtual out of unlimited resources, and virtual computer hardware devices are limited by the physical machine's individual hardware. Each virtual machine shares the same hardware resources, so the more virtual machines run, the CPU and memory consumption of the physical machine increases correspondingly.

Popular Virtual machine software

Virtual machines can be run on Windows, run on Linux, and even on Mac OS to support the operation of virtual machines.

Many people want to try different operating systems, such as learning Linux, or want to have a dedicated system to test a variety of software to prevent the current system from getting bad. At this point, the use of virtual machine software is the best solution.

Virtual machine can not be separated from virtual software, popular virtual machine software is:

• Vmware:https://www.vmware.com/cn.html
• Virtual box:https://www.virtualbox.org/
• Virtual pc:https://www.microsoft.com/zh-cn/download/details.aspx?id=3702

They are able to virtual multiple computers on a Windows system.

When it comes to virtual machines on Windows systems, VMWare Workstation Pro is the best and most widely used in terms of performance and compatibility, but it's expensive. and another official free lite version of the virtual machine software-VMware Workstation player in terms of performance and VMware Workstation Pro almost exactly the same, just a few additional advanced features, but in return for the small size + completely free to use, Therefore, it is more suitable for individual users.

installing VMware

Go to the VMware home page and click on the "Download" option in the navigation bar to select VMware Workstation Pro or VMware Workstation Player for a personal preference.

Or go to the VMware all downloads page to find the corresponding VMware Workstation Pro or VMware Workstation Player.

The latest version of VMware Workstation Pro is 12.0, the optional major version is 11.0, 12.0, the latest VMware Workstation player version is 12.0, the optional major version is 7.0, 12.0, but they are only 64 bits, And there's no 32-bit.

It's okay, if you want to use 32-bit, you can use the previous version. All versions are listed below:

VMware Workstation Pro:

• Major version 4.5-10.0-supports 32-bit & 64-bit
• Major version 11.0-12.0-supports 64-bit

VMware Workstation Player:

• Major version 3.0-6.0-supports 32-bit & 64-bit
• Major version 7.0 12.0-64-bit support

After the download is complete, proceed to the "fool-type" next installation.

Note: download the version corresponding to your own computer, I use the WIN10 32-bit operating system, the download is the VMware Workstation Player, the main version is: 6.0, the minor version is: 6.0.7

More references

• All CentOS Downloads
• CentOS Installation Configuration

Virtual machine Software