Can a virtual PC increase your MG?

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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 said:
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!
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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"
 
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"
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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.
 
Help said:
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!
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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
 
What exactly does a virtual machine do?
Please put brain in gear before starting to use keyboard.
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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.
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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)...
 
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