Hi all,
Just been reading up a bit on virtualization; I know I'm late to the party, I just sort of dismissed it when it was first mentioned to me because it was in the same convo as cloud computing, and failed to grasp the security and multi task benefits.
Would someone mind confirming/busting some areas I'm still not clear on?
1) Is OS virtualization essentially like the games emulators that were so popular a few years ago (mario on your desktop, etc) so you could theoretically get any os - osx, wndows, solaris and run it unmodded on hardware it doesn't like - ppc, spark etc? Or does the original OS need to be compatible with your hardware? I read about osx emulators for pc's but they're both intel.
2) Does visualization effectively protect from malware, or it it best suited to protection from intruders? Surely malware would still save to the hdd and if confined by the virtulization, just wait for other programs to read it and spread it? Or have I missed something obvious?
3) what, if any is the difference between virtualizing an os and the teeny linux distros that run as a live cd from flash drives?
Thanks in advance guys!
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