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An Easy Way to Create a Virtual Machine

In one of my video podcasts, I showed the viewers how to remove a virus without the use of a virus scanner.
To demonstrate this, I obviously didn’t want to infect my own computer. While I could have used a test computer as a sacrificial goat but I don’t want to have to install XP every time I want to test something. So, I used something called a “Virtual Machine”.

In this article, I’ll show you an easy way to create your own virtual machine.

A Virtual machine software is an application that emulates real hardware. A software based test PC if you will. This allows me to install Windows XP as I normally would on a real PC, but within the virtual machine software. Basically, I could run a copy of Windows XP inside my main Windows XP install that I use day to day.

To create a virtual machine, we need to install a Virtual Machine Player. There is a great free one called “VM Ware Player” which you can download here (or here if you want to skip the survey stuff, but it may be an older version).

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