- What Is Virtualization?
- The Building Blocks of Virtualization
- Hardware Virtualization
- Free Virtualization Software
- Guest Operating System Options
- Putting a Virtualization Environment to Use in Practicing CompTIA A+ Certification Skills
- Conclusion
Putting a Virtualization Environment to Use in Practicing CompTIA A+ Certification Skills
Once you set up a virtualizing program and have created (or downloaded and installed) an operating system image, you can launch the virtualized operating system from your computer's Start menu or from the folder containing the operating system image (also known as a virtual machine image).
You can run GUI-based or command-line utilities in each virtual machine without worrying about damaging or deleting files from your host operating system.