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. 2016 Jul 11;5:30. doi: 10.1186/s13742-016-0135-4

Fig. 5.

Fig. 5

Architecture of virtual machines. Virtual machines encapsulate analytical software and dependencies within a “guest” operating system, which may be different to the main (“host”) operating system. A virtual machine executes in the context of virtualization software, which runs alongside other software installed on the computer