What exactly does a virtual machine do?
I thought it increases your hard drive space and you can have a game or
program larger in virtual memory!

Help setting up Virtual PC wrote:
> What exactly does a virtual machine do?
> I thought it increases your hard drive space and you can have a game or
> program larger in virtual memory!
>

I'm not sure if you're confusing Virtual Machine with Virtual Memory here.

A virtual machine is: "a software implementation of a machine (computer)
that executes programs like a real machine."

Virtual memory: "is a computer system technique which gives an
application program the impression that it has contiguous working memory"

On Mar 12, 5:03*am, Universe_JDJ <universe...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Help setting up Virtual PC wrote:
>
> > What exactly does a virtual machine do?
> > I thought it increases your hard drive space and you can have a game or
> > program larger in virtual memory!
>
> I'm not sure if you're confusing Virtual Machine with Virtual Memory here.
>
> A virtual machine is: "a software implementation of a machine (computer)
> that executes programs like a real machine."
>
> Virtual memory: "is a computer system technique which gives an
> application program the impression that it has contiguous working memory"

Thats right. Virtual PC (machine) uses "memory" so as to create a
new PC which can use a different operating system. Uses more RAM and
more hard drive space since you need RAM and disk storage for every
"virtual PC" configuration.

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/pro.../overview.mspx

There is a microsoft.public.virtualpc newsgroup where you can get answers to
lots of questions.

"Help setting up Virtual PC"
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> What exactly does a virtual machine do?
> I thought it increases your hard drive space and you can have a game or
> program larger in virtual memory!
>

Help setting up Virtual PC wrote:
> What exactly does a virtual machine do?
> I thought it increases your hard drive space and you can have a game or
> program larger in virtual memory!
>

Please put brain in gear before starting to use keyboard.

If a virtual machine could increase hard drive space, hard drive
manufacturers would go out of business.

--
Lem -- MS-MVP

To the moon and back with 2K words of RAM and 36K words of ROM.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_Guidance_Computer
http://history.nasa.gov/afj/compessay.htm

Virtual machine: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_machine

vs

Virtual memory: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_memory
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Help setting up Virtual PC wrote:
> What exactly does a virtual machine do?
> I thought it increases your hard drive space and you can have a game or
> program larger in virtual memory!

>> What exactly does a virtual machine do?
>> I thought it increases your hard drive space and you can have a game or
>> program larger in virtual memory!
>
> Please put brain in gear before starting to use keyboard.

That was uncalled for, Mr. MVP. Show a little respect to those who haven't
yet earned that title.

> If a virtual machine could increase hard drive space, hard drive
> manufacturers would go out of business.

Bad argument. Drive manufacturers aren't terribly worried about winzip,
winrar, gzip, NTFS compression, etc, and that's what they actually do (well,
indirectly, but the result is the same)...

On Tue, 11 Mar 2008 23:25:00 -0700, Help setting up Virtual PC
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

> What exactly does a virtual machine do?
> I thought it increases your hard drive space


No, not at all.


> and you can have a game or
> program larger in virtual memory!


No, you are apparently confusing a virtual machine with virtual
memory. The two are entirely different.

Read here for a definition of a virtual machine:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_machine


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Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP - Windows Desktop Experience
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