Prologue

The use of Virtual Machines for web development is becoming ubiquitous, and with good reason.

This is the first of a two article series about using machine virtualization as a development tool. It focuses on the question of what. The second article is found here and focuses on the question of how.

What are Virtual Machines for a software developer?

A Virtual Machine (VM) is a software based abstraction of a physical machine. This abstraction makes it possible to Read on →