Tuesday, December 18, 2012

Hyper-V on Windows 8

Have you ever needed an extra machine to have an old version of windows or a different operating system? .. most of us had , especially if it is risky to try some software on your labtop/PC.

Vmware workstation and Virtual PC is commonly used among IT engineers for training and testing purpose by engineers and students in our community. Microsoft Hyper-V worth to try.

Microsoft Hyper-V server 2012 is a hypervisor based server virtualization product, it can be used directly on the server, or on top of Windows server. with windows 8, Hyper-V is enabled to work on the client machines, not only the windows server, to give us, users, the ability to create VMs as need and install other version of windows, linux or any other x86 OS, it runs more than one machine, with 32-bit and/or 64-bit OS at the same time


*What is a hypervisor?
In computing, a hypervisor or virtual machine manager (VMM) is a piece of computer software, firmware or hardware that creates and runs virtual machines.
A computer on which a hypervisor is running one or more virtual machines is a host machine. Each of those virtual machines is called a guest machine. The hypervisor presents to the guest operating systems a virtual operating platform and manages the execution of the guest operating systems. Multiple instances of a variety of operating systems may share the virtualized hardware resources.

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