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Windows Aero support (experimental) Virtual machine cloning; 4.2 Sep 13, 2012: Virtual machine groups – allows management of a group of virtual machines as a single unit (power them on or off, take snapshots, etc.) Some VM settings can be altered during VM execution; Support up to 36 NICs in case of the ICH9 chipset
Integrity Virtual Machines: Hewlett-Packard: IA-64: IA-64 HP-UX: HP-UX, Windows, Linux (OpenVMS announced) Proprietary: JPC (Virtual Machine) University of Oxford: Any running the Java Virtual Machine: x86 Java Virtual Machine DOS, Linux, Windows up to 3.0 GPL version 2: KVM: Qumranet, now Red Hat x86, x86-64, IA-64, with x86 virtualization ...
Virtualization: Each jail is a virtual environment running on the host machine with its own files, processes, user and superuser accounts. From within a jailed process, the environment is almost indistinguishable from a real system. Security: Each jail is sealed from the others, thus providing an additional level of security.
Windows XP Mode (XPM) [37] [38] is a virtual machine package for Windows Virtual PC containing a pre-installed, licensed copy of Windows XP Professional with Service Pack 3 as its guest OS. Previously, both the CPU and motherboard of the host had to support hardware virtualization, [ 39 ] but an update in early 2010 eliminated this requirement ...
A hypervisor, also known as a virtual machine monitor (VMM) or virtualizer, is a type of computer software, firmware or hardware that creates and runs virtual machines. A computer on which a hypervisor runs one or more virtual machines is called a host machine , and each virtual machine is called a guest machine .
The desire to run multiple operating systems was the initial motivation for virtual machines, so as to allow time-sharing among several single-tasking operating systems. In some respects, a system virtual machine can be considered a generalization of the concept of virtual memory that historically preceded it.
Support for Unity, a feature that allows seamless integration of applications with the host desktop [126] by hiding the monitor of the Virtual Machine and drawing the windows of applications running in the virtual machine on the host. Unity support was added for Windows 10 and removed for Linux in Workstation 12. [52]
Hyper-V is a native hypervisor developed by Microsoft; it can create virtual machines on x86-64 systems running Windows. [1] It is included in Pro and Enterprise editions of Windows NT (since Windows 8) as an optional feature to be manually enabled. [2]