Chapter 22
Virtualization
Lab Exercises
22.01 Identifying Virtualization Technologies
22.02 Installing and Using VirtualBox
Virtualization has taken over the computing world, especially when it comes to nearly every server on the Internet. Using virtual machines (VMs), you can run an entire virtual operating system (OS) on top of your existing OS. If you have Windows 10 or 11 installed, for example, you can download a virtualization application like Oracle VM VirtualBox, install Ubuntu Linux on it, and run Ubuntu inside Windows! The difference between software and hardware gets confusing when you realize that the virtual OS uses virtual hardware to re-create almost everything ...
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