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Once all the boot and system drivers have been loaded, the kernel starts the session manager (smss.exe), which begins the login process. After the user has successfully logged into the machine, winlogon applies User and Computer Group Policy setting and runs startup programs declared in the Windows Registry and in "Startup" folders. [5]
VMware Workstation versions 12.0.0, 12.0.1, and 12.1.0 were released at intervals of about two months in 2015. [9] In January 2016 the entire development team behind VMware Workstation and Fusion was disbanded and all US developers were immediately fired.
Resizing of disk image formats from Oracle, VDI (VirtualBox disk image), and Microsoft, VHD (Virtual PC hard disk) 4.1 Jul 19, 2011: Windows Aero support (experimental) Virtual machine cloning; 4.2 Sep 13, 2012: Virtual machine groups – allows management of a group of virtual machines as a single unit (power them on or off, take snapshots, etc.)
The update caused machines to either enter into a bootloop or boot into recovery mode. [15] [16] Almost immediately, Windows virtual machines on the Microsoft Azure cloud platform began rebooting and crashing, [17] and at 06:48 UTC, Google Compute Engine also reported the problem.
Some virtual machine infrastructure can directly import and export a boot image for direct installation to "bare metal", i.e. a disk. This is the standard technique for OEMs to install identical copies of an operating system on many identical machines: The boot image is created as a virtual machine and then exported, or created on one disk and then copied via a boot image control ...
In computing, a virtual machine (VM) is the virtualization or emulation of a computer system. Virtual machines are based on computer architectures and provide the functionality of a physical computer. Their implementations may involve specialized hardware, software, or a combination of the two.
Linux kernel boot and decompression process. vmlinux is a statically linked executable file that contains the Linux kernel in one of the object file formats supported by Linux, which includes Executable and Linkable Format (ELF) and Common Object File Format (COFF).
Virtual OpenBSD machine configuration in VirtualBox with live image file (6.3-Release-i386-bootonly.iso) The files on a live CD ISO image can be accessed in Microsoft Windows with a disk image emulator such as Daemon Tools , or in Unix variants by mounting a loop device .