VirtualBox

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  • VIRTUAL MACHINES BABY

Benefits

  • freeze, wake, copied, backed up, transported btw hosts
  • "Snapshots" - save state of virtual machine, and revert back to that state later
  • Reduce hardware costs. Can even deploys workstations on thin clients that access virtual server through RDP
  • Deploy "appliances" with entire software configurations, like mail server or BOINC

Terminology

  • host OS - os of physical computer
  • guest OS - os running inside virtual machine
  • VM - special environment VirtualBox creates for OS. run OS "in" a VM. Dictate hardware settings, how much memory, hard disks available, what CDs that are mounted; state information, running frozen, snapshot
  • Guest additions - optimizations designed to be installed within the VM specific to particulat guest OS
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