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Virtual machine

Updated: 06/30/2019 by Computer Hope
Person's finger touching a digital, virtual finger.

A VM (virtual machine) is a program that is capable imitating a physical device, such as a computer. A good example of a software application capable of doing this is VMware.

Computer acronyms, Ethereum, JVM, Operating system terms, P-machine, VDI, Virtual, Virtual desktop

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