Chapter Ten Emerging Applications
With ever-expanding computer applications and their associated demands on computer system administration, the role of virtual machines and virtualization are likewise expanding. Virtualization enables the introduction of new system capabilities without adding complexity to already-existing and already-complex hardware and software. These new capabilities will support innovative computing paradigms and will provide critical functions in areas that have assumed major importance in a world grown increasingly dependent on computers.
In an argument reminiscent of those given for the original development of VM systems on mainframes, it has been suggested that operating systems and applications running on real machines ...
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