What is Virtualization Software?

The term virtualization Software enables a single host machine to create and run one or more virtual environments. Virtualization software is the most commonly used software platforms to emulate a complete computer system in order to facilitate a guest operating system. For example, it allows Linux operating system to run as a guest OS on the top of a system that is naively running Windows OS (or the reverse is, it allows Windows operating system to run as a guest OS on Linux operating environment).