# Virtual Machines

Skill · Cloud Computing and DevOps

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

Virtual machines (VMs) are software-based emulations of physical computers that run their own operating system and applications on top of a host machine's hardware, managed via hypervisors like VMware, VirtualBox, or Hyper-V. IT professionals, developers, and system administrators use VMs for testing software across different operating systems, isolating workloads, running legacy applications, and maximizing hardware utilization in data centers and cloud computing. They are foundational to cloud infrastructure services offered by providers like AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud.

Related skills: [Hyper-V](https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/hyper-v-2), [VMware Workstation](https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/vmware-workstation), [Cloud Computing](https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/cloud-computing), [Amazon EC2](https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/amazon-ec2), [Containerization](https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/containerization), [Hyper V](https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/hyper-v), [Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud](https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/amazon-elastic-compute-cloud)

## Open roles requiring Virtual Machines (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.