Chapter 24
Revit and Virtualization
Virtualization isn't just about running Windows applications on Mac hardware. It's about maximizing your computing investment by running multiple operating systems and applications simultaneously. Running virtualized operating systems also helps protect your host computing environment by isolating the virtual machines from the host machine and each other, which is great for testing new versions of software and isolating programming efforts (rather than risk testing on the host machine). In addition, virtualization takes full advantage of multicore environments.
A multicore processor is like having multiple computers in one PC. Running Revit on virtual machines (VMs) means that when one computer-intensive task ...
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