A virtual machine environment for Windows servers from Microsoft that supports most x86 operating systems as guests. It is used to run multiple copies of Windows as well as Linux in a virtualized server environment. For virtualizing a user's PC, Microsoft offers Virtual PC. See virtual machine.
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- Discussion threads 2009-11-18
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