You may be interested
in working with multiple operating systems at the same time. Sometimes it may
be a requirement when you are doing a particular job.
The simplest solution
is to have a virtual machine. Being in a windows environment, if you want to
run Mac OS in a virtual machine you may encounter several problems. If your processor
supports hardware virtualization, you can try Mac OS in your VM ware with fewer
efforts. But if it doesn’t ……
Since I had to face
this problem, I read some articles to learn about hardware virtualization. Below
you can read some facts about hardware virtualization.
Hardware
virtualization is a technology that is heavily used in server platforms due to
its ability to provide with facilities to perform multiple tasks on a single processor
without requiring separate software applications.
Hypervisor; the
software that is used to control the processor, memory and other resources allows
multiple operating systems to run on the same platform without changing the
existing operating system. So, it is also called as virtual machine manager.
Where do we use hardware virtualization?
- When you want to play around with
an operating system, the best thing is to use a virtual machine. Damaging the
OS running in the virtual machine may not damage the host system in your
computer.
- This can be used in kernel
developments.
- As mentioned above, this can be
used in server platforms.
- You can copy your virtual machine
from one computer and place it in a different computer, very easily.
