The term “virtual” has been co-opted in so many ways that it’s now more vague and confusing than ever before. Virtual reality. Virtual RAM. Virtual schools. The virtual keyword in programming languages. But the most unclear? Virtualization in the context of PCs. Virtualization (AKA the use of virtual machines) is when you take one set of physical resources, like CPU and RAM and hard drive space, and allocate them into discrete chunks that are each seen as separate systems. But they aren’t “real” systems. One computer could be divided into many “virtual” systems. The easiest way to do this is...
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