# Virtualization and Virtual Machines

Skill · Cloud Computing and DevOps

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

This area covers the creation and management of virtual machines (VMs)—software-based emulations of complete computer systems that run their own operating system on shared physical hardware, coordinated by a hypervisor like VMware ESXi, Microsoft Hyper-V, or KVM. System administrators and developers use VMs for testing software in isolated environments, running legacy applications, and building scalable cloud infrastructure. Skills in this area include provisioning, snapshotting, and migrating VMs across hosts.

Related skills: [Hyper-V](https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/hyper-v-2), [VMware ESXi](https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/vmware-esxi), [Cloud Infrastructure](https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/cloud-infrastructure)

## Open roles requiring Virtualization and 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.