Software development across operating systems can be accomplished without having to reboot the computer.
New operating systems and software can be tested without changing anything on the original computer.
An example of this is running Microsoft Access on a Mac.
Software available for only one operating system can be run within another OS.
VM’s are helpful for a number of reasons: The VM uses a portion of the host computer’s RAM, a part of the hard disk and some of its CPU time. The purpose of this tutorial is to demonstrate how to set up a Windows 10 Virtual Machine (VM) using the Oracle VirtualBox software.Ī Virtual Machine (VM) is a fully running copy of an operating system that runs concurrently (at the same time) with the host operating system.