What Are Virtual Machines Used For?
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Virtual machines are used for emulation and virtualization, meaning that a physical compute system can host multiple isolated operating systems that behave as if they are running on their own dedicated machine. This allows for multiple isolated instances to be running at once, or multiple operating systems to be running on the same physical machine. They are commonly used in private clouds and software testing.
Virtual machines (VMs) are used for a variety of purposes, including software development and testing, application hosting, server consolidation, running legacy applications, and running multiple operating systems on a single machine. VMs can also be used to manage multiple versions of an application or operating system on a single machine. They are also used in cloud computing to provide virtualized hardware resources to customers.