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Understand the limits of a virtual computer |
October 10, 2013
Amin Inshassi asked the Desktops forum for details about what can and can't be done with a virtual machine.
In a virtual machine (VM), software pretends to be hardware. You can thus load a "computer" into a VM application the way you can load a document into a word processor. It was through a VM that I grabbed this Blue Screen of Death image.
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I can recommend two separate VM applications, both free. The easier of the two, especially if you're just learning about VMs, is VMware Player, the stripped-down version of a much more powerful and costly tool.
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