How do home users use virtual machines

Question

I understand that in a work environment, different types of servers doing specific tasks can be each a VM.

In: Engineering

Answer 1

I rent two seedboxes they are virtualized.

You might be running a virtualize client and not known it – think emulators.

I have created virtual windows machines and allowed infected files to do there thing just out of curiosity.

Understand this. Virtualizing something takes a lot of processing power. I have seen 10 times thrown around. But – processors have gotten fast, plentiful and cheap – so that isn’t always the dealbreaker you might think it should be.