What is a VM host?
What is a VM host? A host virtual machine is the server component of a virtual machine (VM), the underlying hardware that provides computing resources to support a particular guest virtual machine (guest VM). Together, the host virtual machine and guest virtual machine make up a virtual machine server.
What is virtual hosting?
Virtual hosting is a method for hosting multiple domain names (with separate handling of each name) on a single server (or pool of servers). This allows one server to share its resources, such as memory and processor cycles, without requiring all services provided to use the same host name.
How is virtual hosting done?
The concept of virtual hosts allows more than one Web site on one system or Web server. The servers are differentiated by their host name. Visitors to the Web site are routed by host name or IP address to the correct virtual host. Virtual hosting allows companies sharing one server to each have their own domain names.
Can you host a server on a VM?
Creating and setting up a VM server is easy, which is partly why their use has become so prevalent. Setting up virtual host machines is the first step, as the main thing limiting the number of virtual machines you can set up on one piece of hardware is the hard drive space.
