May 2017
Intermediate to advanced
312 pages
5h 23m
English
In a virtual machine (VM), we need to install an operating system with the appropriate device drivers; hence,the footprint or size of a virtual machine is huge. A normal VM with Tomcat and Java installed may take up to 10 GB of drive space:

There's an overhead of memory management and device drivers. A VM has all the components a normal physical machine has in terms of operation.
In a VM, the hypervisor abstracts resources. Its package includes not only the application, but also the necessary binaries and libraries, and an entire guest operating system, for example, CentOS 6.7 and Windows 2003.
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