Whats wrong with Windows 8.1?
I have read a lot of posts about Win 8.1. Some say they will never touch it or they hate it or it sucks or any number of other complaints. Then there are some that say they like Win 8.1 and thin...
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Gdetrailer wrote:fj12ryder wrote:
Just curious as to what a "100% virtual environment" is? Does that mean you have no local servers or desktops?
"virtual" environments are nothing more than an artificial PC within a PC. You can setup a virtual PC environment on a local workstation.
In a nutshell you start with a virtual PC software, this software emulates or mimics a PC processor (some can even give you choices of processor type and speed), memory, hard drive, various ports, video card. Once the virtual PC software is installed you can load your OS of choice and you OS thinks it is living on a real PC!
With virtual environments you will have a base (or Host) OS (server or desktop) and a virtual OS can be also started on top of the base OS.
You have some advantages to this, it allows you to run multiple OS at the same time, all virtual environments are separate so if one is corrupted or damaged by a virus you simply can restore the single file that was damaged. Each virtual environment since it runs like a separate PC can not easily propagate virus or malware between the virtual PCs on the base OS..
Many reasons to use virtual environments but most people would not have any real use for it.
Actually, on my older Windows 7 laptop, I'm running VMware Player and have Windows 98SE, Windows Server 2000, Windows XP, and Windows 8 virtuals installed. I can run absolutely anything on that machine. VMware Player is a free download but you do have to have a valid license available for each operating system you install. It does take a bit of tweaking to work but not much more that setting up Linux on your laptop.
