Virtual Machines Power the Cloud - Computerphile

Published: 05 October 2013
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The number of virtual machines has swelled due to cloud computing & changes to the X86 processor, but what are Virtual Machines and how do they run legacy software alongside cutting edge code? Derek McAuley explains.

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