Linux based virtualisation – the way to save money and go green
Virtualisation is a technology that can work wonders: provide a testing environment, enhance your processing power, consolidate your computing resources, decrease running costs, preserve legacy apps and more! Here’s how virtualisation can benefit you and why the Linux route really beats out the competition.
Virtualisation is all about running a pseudo-computer as if it were just another application running on a real computer. The virtualised computer believes it has a hard drive to itself; in reality its whole file system is merely contained within disk files on another underlying file system. The virtualised computer will act just as if it were physically installed on a computer from the outset, with the processor and resources to itself.
The virtual computer need not be the same operating system as the host it runs on. In fact, this is where virtualisation makes for an excellent test environment. You may be a Microsoft Windows user who has not yet switched to Linux. You can try out different Linux distros within virtual PCs on your computer. There’s no risk of harming your Windows installation but yet you still get the benefits of a real Linux deployment.
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