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as much as many of us would like to escape our mundane lives for something a

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little more Fantastical the concept of

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virtual reality is still a little ways away from completely fooling our brains

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into thinking we're actually in Middle Earth or whatever but for your computer

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it's pretty simple to fool it into thinking that a fake virtual environment

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is the real deal I'm talking of course about

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virtualization which has become a really useful tool for home users and it Pros

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alike but what the heck is it well in a general sense it means putting layers of

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software between your computer's hardware and some other software that

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you're trying to run but more commonly it means running one operating system on

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top of another one on top of another one on top of another one exception uh no

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usually it's one layer and then more operating systems so you've probably

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seen this in the form of running one version of Windows as a virtual machine

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or a VM inside a window in a newer

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version this has all sorts of realworld applications but before we get into this

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it helps to understand something about how your computer achieves this you see

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your computer grants different pieces of software different privileges depending

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on what they are your operating system has a lot more privileges than regular

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programs like being able to directly access Hardware like your memory or your

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CPU the idea being to stop malicious

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applications from attacking your system or crashing it because of this early

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virtualization software that was forced to run as a regular program without

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privileged access to Hardware directly

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had to translate the actual instruction set of the processor which you can learn

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about here by the way so that the virtual OS could actually make any use

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of it or as an alternative you can install a small program called a

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hypervisor as the main OS on the computer then virtualize your main OS

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like Linux or Windows or whatever else on top of that to actually run programs

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but because of the overhead involved with translating instructions this

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resulted in some serious slowdowns in terms of performance but in the mid

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2000s both AMD and Intel started making

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processors that natively supported virtual machines allowing a hypervisor

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to run below the layer where an OS would

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usually be which means that the system wouldn't have to spend time translating

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instructions enabling much faster near

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native performance okay lonus so that's a lot of technical talk about

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hypervisors and layers and onions or whatever else but what does that mean

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for me can I actually use this stuff well yeah actually if you have older

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games you still love that just won't play nicely on your modern 64-bit

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operating system you can run an old 32bit version of Windows in a virtual

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machine and play to your heart's content cool right VMS are also useful for

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testing new software or even like a

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website that you're not sure whether it contains malware or not because you can

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just delete the entire virtual machine without touching any of the important

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data on your main Os or even your network if you quarantine it effectively

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and speaking of your main operating system if you're thinking about

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switching to something else completely different you can actually try your new

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OS in a virtual machine without nuking

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your existing hard drive and your existing OS not to mention compatibility

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between operating systems remember parallels that I mentioned before

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Windows applications on the Mac that's right and if you have important data

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that you can't lose VMS are also a very easy way to back up most VM software can

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take snapshots of the entire virtual system at a given point in time kind of

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like an Uber system restore this capability has made it very popular on

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servers which often need redundancy and

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backups to ensure constant operation not to mention the fact that running

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multiple virtual machines on one server

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can put all of that processing power to better use as modern server Hardware is

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notoriously underutilized especially if

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the workloads don't natively take advantage of many processing threads at

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a time but if you want to do something really cool you can virtualize your

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gaming rig and turn one beastly PC into

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to three virtual machines a Naas and

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then two gaming boxes that two players can use at once so you can check out

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this video for a practical demonstration of how it's done and the results

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