- allows us gain hands-on-experience on various operating system without any worry of partitioning or formatting our hard disks.
- we can install and experiment with applications without any worry in the guest operating system as the host or native operating system of our computer will remain out of trouble.
- we can study n make changes in the system files of the operating system
- we (i.e. developers ) often develop projects which are not portable or are hard to demonstrate on other computers. as running complex projects requires installation of requisite software and a lot of configurations. these problems can be avoided with os virtualization softwares. we can develop our projects in the virtual os and later carry the entire os [with installed apps. and projects ] to other computers.all we have to do its to install the os virtualization in the target computer
Softwares: there are several this king of programs available. however the most popular names are:
1. | VMware Workstation: its a shareware.besides a real powerful software which supports a wide-range of guest os.it also provides a lot of tools and customization options for the guest os.i personally recommend this. torrent download here | |
2. | Virtual Box :(by SunMicrosystems currently owned by Oracle).its a freeware. moreover its open source.very userfriendly and fast. download here | |
3. | Windows Virtual PC: its also a shareware.its vendor is Microsoft Corporations.it works only if the host operating system is windows.download here |