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Figure 22-10 Super Nintendo emulator running on Windows

EXAM TIP While the CompTIA A+ 220-1001 exam objectives include

emulator requirements as a part of virtualization, the concepts are not the

same. For the sake of completeness, however, know that emulating another

platform (using a PC to run Sony PlayStation 4 games, for example) requires

hardware several times more powerful than the platform being emulated.

Client-Side Virtualization

This chapter will show you a few of the ways you can use virtualization, but

before I go any further, let’s take the basic pieces you’ve learned about

virtualization and put them together in one of its simplest forms. Client-side

virtualization is running a virtual machine on your local system (in contrast

to VMs run elsewhere, which we’ll look at later in the chapter) regardless of

whether the VM file itself might be stored locally or on a central server

accessed via the network.

The basic process for creating virtual machines is as follows:

1. Set up your system’s hardware to support virtual machines and verify

it can meet the resource requirements for running them.

2. Install a hypervisor on your system.

3. Create a new virtual machine that has the proper virtualized hardware

requirements for the guest OS.

4. Start the new virtual machine and install the new guest OS exactly as

you’d install it on a new physical machine.

Hardware Support and Resource Requirements

While any computer running Linux, Windows, or macOS will support a

hypervisor, there are a few hardware requirements we need to address. First,

every hypervisor will run better if you enable hardware virtualization support.

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