# Virtual Machines (VM)

Skill · Cloud Computing and DevOps

Canonical page: https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/virtual-machines-vm

A virtual machine (VM) is a software-based emulation of a physical computer, running its own operating system and applications independently of the underlying hardware, enabled by hypervisor software such as VMware, VirtualBox, or Hyper-V. VMs let developers, IT admins, and cloud providers run multiple isolated systems on one physical machine, useful for testing, server consolidation, and running legacy or cross-platform software. They form the backbone of modern cloud computing infrastructure offered by services like AWS and Azure.

Related skills: [Cloud Computing](https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/cloud-computing), [Hyper-V](https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/hyper-v-2)

## Open roles requiring Virtual Machines (VM) (0)

None of the roles we have read name this skill yet. A large share of the visible corpus has not been parsed for skills, so this is at least as likely to be our backlog as the market's verdict.