2014-12-10
Overview of Virtualization Technology

Note: On November 21, 2014, I shared some of my insights on virtualization technology at the Alibaba Tech Club’s Virtualization Technology Exchange and “USTC Cloud 3.0” launch event. After organizing and supplementing, I discuss with you. (Long text, enter with caution)

Everyone is familiar with virtualization technology, most of us have used virtual machine software such as VMWare, VirtualBox. Some people think that virtualization technology has only become popular in recent years with the trend of cloud computing, and ten years ago it was just a toy for desktop users to test other operating systems. Not really. As long as multiple tasks are running on the computer at the same time, there will be a demand for task isolation, and virtualization is the technology that makes each task appear to monopolize the entire computer and isolate the impact between tasks. As early as the 1960s when computers were still huge, virtualization technology began to develop.

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