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CompTIA A+ Certification All-in-One Exam Guide

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Figure 22-21 Fedora Workstation running in VirtualBox

Congratulations! You’ve just installed a virtual desktop. (That’s the

CompTIA phrase. Most techs just call it a new VM.)

NOTE CompTIA uses the term virtual desktop in an odd way; we’ve used

it the same way here, to describe a simple desktop environment on a virtual

machine. In practice, a virtual desktop more commonly refers to the multiple

desktop environments you can access in modern operating systems, such as

clicking the Task View icon in Windows 10 and going to a second desktop.

Like with a real system, you can add or remove hardware, but it won’t

take a trip to the electronics store or a box from Newegg. The real power of a

hypervisor is in the flexibility of the virtual hardware. A hypervisor has to

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