What do you understand by virtualization. Mention the pros and cons.

What do you understand by virtualization. Mention the pros and cons.

- In a way virtualization appears similar to emulation but actually it shares hardware resources from the host OS.

- This method is slower as compared to partition method but is faster than emulation.

- Virtualization had also vast support considering it can also provide with 3d support.

- With the help of virtualization it enable users to create virtual clusters.

- But virtualization systems require a lot of memory in form of ram.

- For virtualization it is mandatory that the virtualized platform has the same architecture as the host pc otherwise due to incompatibilities it is not possible.