{"id":29844,"date":"2018-02-15T22:37:36","date_gmt":"2018-02-15T22:37:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=29844"},"modified":"2018-02-15T22:37:36","modified_gmt":"2018-02-15T22:37:36","slug":"computer-science-technology-what-is-a-virtual-machine-vm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/computer-science-technology-what-is-a-virtual-machine-vm\/","title":{"rendered":"Computer science, technology: what is a virtual machine (VM)?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>More technology self-tutoring: the tutor explains the idea of a virtual machine.<\/h1>\n<div style=\"font-family:monospace;background-color:fireBrick;color:ivory;white-space:pre-wrap;padding:16px;font-size:130%;\">\n<span style=\"font-size:130%\">virtual machine (abbreviation: VM):<\/span><\/p>\n<p>An entity that is accessible via keyboard and screen, like a desktop, and may function, to the user, like a standalone computer. However, the virtual machine resides in a server or computer that may host many others as well.<\/p>\n<p>In a simple case, each employee might use her\/his own separate VM at work, but in fact all of the VMs might reside on a single server. (In reality there would likely be at least two servers for back-up purposes.) Yet, each employee experiences their own PC.<\/p>\n<p>On the client side, the actual deployment of the virtual machines might be accomplished via network connectivity and login credentials.<br \/>\n\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"white-space:pre-wrap\"><\/p>\n<p>Source:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-in\/overview\/what-is-a-virtual-machine\/\">azure.microsoft.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lifewire.com\/virtual-machine-4147598\">www.lifewire.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More technology self-tutoring: the tutor explains the idea of a virtual machine. virtual machine (abbreviation: VM): An entity that is accessible via keyboard and screen, like a desktop, and may function, to the user, like a standalone computer. However, the &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/computer-science-technology-what-is-a-virtual-machine-vm\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Computer science, technology: what is a virtual machine (VM)?<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[105,2142,458,1],"tags":[2727,2726,2728],"class_list":["post-29844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-science","category-computer-systems","category-technology","category-uncategorized","tag-what-does-vm-stand-for","tag-what-is-a-virtual-machine","tag-what-is-a-vm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29844"}],"version-history":[{"count":59,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29844\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29903,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29844\/revisions\/29903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}