Comments on: Several ways to explain virtualization to a non-techie person http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/virtualization-pro/several-ways-to-explain-virtualization-to-a-non-techie-person/ A SearchVMware.com blog Wed, 27 Jul 2011 11:50:50 +0000 hourly 1 By: Randomname http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/virtualization-pro/several-ways-to-explain-virtualization-to-a-non-techie-person/#comment-222 Randomname Tue, 10 Nov 2009 21:37:45 +0000 http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/virtualization-pro/?p=1184#comment-222 Imagine you take your large (20+ person) extended family on a road trip. Since you’re all antisocial creeps, and you can’t stand each others company or choice in music, you take one car per person.

Also, none of you can agree on what kind of food to eat, so you end up at 20 different restaurants.

No two people, including you and your spouse, can stand to stay in the same room, so you all end up in different rooms, in different hotels spread along the route.

You see the smiling people renting you the rooms, selling you meals, and pumping the gas for your cars? They’re facilitating virtualization.

If the OS vendors, or the app authors, or the stinking userbase put the effort in to it, many of these apps could run on few OS instances AS SEPARATE PROCESSES, and you woudn’t need to dump all this money into virtualization.

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