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  The idea of virtualization started during the mainframe days in the late 1960s and early 1970s. IBM was the first to apply virtual machines in the commercial environment. Different companies then followed and introduced their own version. In 1999, a company called VMware began selling their virtualization software called VMware Workstation. And in 2010, Oracle Corporation took over development of VirtualBox after purchasing Sun Microsystems. In today’s modern IT industry, both VMware and Oracle are market leaders in virtualization. What is Virtualization? Virtualization uses a software to create a virtualization layer over an actual hardware to abstract the host machine and its operating system from the guest machines. This layer allows a single computer’s resources (processors, memory, storage and more) to be distributed into multiple virtual instances of a computer system. These virtual instances are commonly called virtual machines (VMs). These virtual machines can run differe