Virtual Computer and Its Application to Know

Perhaps many of us are still not familiar with virtual machine software. Virtual machine is a software that has the ability to memvirtualisasikan one or more computers in one computer. In some ways, that with this virtual machine, we can try to install various operating systems in one computer safely without the fear of an error in the installation that can cause data loss. Virtual Computer is different with dual boot.
Dual Boot does not allow us to run all operating systems simultaneously in one time, while the Virtual Computer can be two or more roads at once. Besides the benefits we can make a virtual machine as a vehicle to learn computer experiments to test the application or to learn a new OS for us. Well suited sekalikan with our new learning, especially students or student.

Virtual computer is often referred to as a virtual machine / emulator CPU / computer virtualizer / computer emulator / virtual PC, etc.. This core of Virtual Computer, capable of presenting one or more virtual computers complete with virtual hard disks and other hardware devices so that we can build a virtual network between all the virtual computers and physical computers that we have. As an illustration, please see the image above. On a computer that we can have both running OS Linux and Solaris with the same time.

Here are some softwares that can do a virtual computer and can be worth a try. If there are additional applications that have not written here, please provide comments to complete this article.

Microsoft Virtual PC

Microsoft as the OS of the largest providers also create virtual machine software. Direct support for this software diintalkan: Windows Server 2003, Standard Edition (32-bit x86); Windows Server 2003, Standard x64 Edition, Windows Vista Business, Windows Vista Business 64-bit edition, Windows Vista Enterprise, Windows Vista Enterprise 64-bit edition, Windows Vista Ultimate, Windows Vista Ultimate 64-bit edition; of Windows XP Professional Edition, Windows XP Professional x64 Edition, Windows XP Tablet PC Edition. Well if you are interested, aja direct download from microsoft.com site

Bochs

Built by Kevin Lawton in C + + and licensed under the GNU / GPL. Bochs can run on almost all operating system platforms like Windows and Linux. As an emulator, Bochs can emulate Intel x86 CPU, BIOS Custom and various I / O devices. To vote, Bochs to emulate the sounds blaster and device network, emulate Bochs NE2000 card, or compatible. For those of you who want to use Bochs and utilize a variety of images that are already available, please visit http://bochs.sourceforge.net/diskimages.html. And for more information, visit the site http://bochs.sourceforge.net/

GXEMUL

Built by Anders Gavare, is a complete computer with CPU emulator and various hardware components, such as the framebuffer, the interrupt controller, bus, disk controllers, and serial controllers. This emulator is built in C and licensed under the revised BSD-style. For more information visit http://gavare.se/gxemul


Hercules

This sophisticated program developed by Roger Bowler and this time, maintained by Jay Marnard, is licensed under the Q Public License. As hosts, Hercules can run on
Linux, Windows (1998, 2000, XP), Mac OS X. For more information, visit:
http://www.hercules-390.org

Mac-On Linux

This application allows virtualized Mac OS or Mac OS X on Linux. Thus we are using the x86 architecture can not take advantage of this application. For Host, Mac On Linux support Linux with kernel 2.4 and 2.6 For more information, see: http://mac-on-linux.sourceforge.net/



Parallels Workstation

This software is not free. Parallels is dibandrol a price of U.S. $ 79.99. Well enough mahalkan? But many of the features offered by this software. For more information, see http://www.parallels.com/en/products/workstation/


Pear PC

This software can be run independent of the architecture. The program is built by Sebastian GPL licensed Bialas and this includes very interesting. From the host side, this software can run on POSIX X-11, including Linux. But they can also run on Win32 host. For more information, see: http://pearpc.sourceforge.net/index.html


Qemu

Qemu is an emulator which is very popular in world of Free / OpenSource software. For the X-86 system (host and guest), qemu can even walk better by utilizing Kqemu (Qemu Accelerator), which allows virtualization is done by performing a near native (near native performance). Qemu can run in two modes: 1. User (only for Linux hosts and can be used to run Linux processes compiled for one CPU on another CPU) 2. Systems (emulation of one computer management). For more information, see
http://bellard.org/qemu/index.html



Virtual Box

This software is developed by Inotek later purchased by Sun Microsystems on February 12, 2008 last. Later this software is quite popular as an x86 virtual machine feature-rich and easy to use. Besides the virtual Box also licensed under the GPL. For the host, this software supports: Linux, Windows, Macintosh, open solaris. More information, see http://www.virtualbox.org/


Vmware Workstation

VMWare is one of the more popular virtual machine. VMWare also includes software that is not free. It costs about U.S. $ 189 for now. For more information, visit
http://vmware.com/products/ws/.