What is the point of virtual machines?

>>57555913
da fuq kinda question is this

To show off your ricing in desktop threads

>>57555913
To emulate lesser software

namely Winblows

>>57555913
To allow you to try out different operating systems without having to actually install them?

>>57555913
To save server costs

to run linux without becoming a neet

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>>57555974
only real answer, thanks bro!

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>>57555913
What's the point of you existing, you little punk-ass little bitch?

They're useful for sharing development environments around.

Also for playing Chinese cartoon poem games.

>>57555913
For when you want the security and stability of Linux, but want or need something that runs on Windows.
I also use them when I get one of those Indian tech support scam calls. When they take over the desktop, I have Wireshark running on the main Linux machine, then I tell them what I'm doing they get pissed off or just hang up.

>>57555913
The same as rooms in an apartment and apartments in a big building.

>>57555949
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>>57555913
VMs are one way of sharing the resources of a computer. they are much like an operating system in this regard, which shares the computer among processes.

the difference is that a VM exports a much lower-level interface than an OS. it supports what looks like a machine, rather than what looks like a programming library (syscalls and userspace). this has advantages and disadvantages, the main advantage being that VMs are much better at isolating, and VMs are much better at legacy support. so they are very popular in industry, where you need absolute isolation of services that won't often be updated

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>>57555913
They give me pleasure. Idk why. To upgrade is like to cum.