Desktop virtualisation
Need to run a different distro without rebooting, or run Windows without your friends knowing? Neil Bothwick looks at some virtual options for you.
Virtualisation is a big thing these days. It’s used by big data companies to spin up extra resources when needed, because it’s much quicker to boot a VM on a running OS than to boot a hardware box from scratch. However, we’re looking at the other side of virtualisation here: running virtual machines on your desktop. This may be because you need to use a different distro from time to time – either to see if the grass on the other ISO really is greener or because you’re testing software on multiple distros.