Simply put: To better understand how computers work.
So, why build one when there are already so many great VMs out there? Such a simple description for something so powerful.įrom a practical perspective, VMs allow users to safely run programs in an isolated environment: the emulated machine. Since this emulated computer isn’t physical, we call it “virtual”.
Virtual Machines (VMs) are a magical thing: a computer being emulated inside a physical computer.
