From the course: Virtualization: Configuring VMs Across Platforms with VMware, Hyper-V, VirtualBox, Vagrant, and KVM
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Virtualization versus emulation
From the course: Virtualization: Configuring VMs Across Platforms with VMware, Hyper-V, VirtualBox, Vagrant, and KVM
Virtualization versus emulation
- There's also emulation. So how does virtualization compare to emulation? Well, in emulation, the function of one system is replicated and rewritten to work in other operating system. That means that in emulation, all instructions need to be done twice. Think for instance of an Amiga game console that can be emulated to run on a PC. Emulation is slow, and that is because all instructions need to be rewritten before they can be handled by the actual host operating system. Virtualization is much more efficient because it provides direct access to the virtual hardware devices, and for that reason, it's way faster.
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