About 9% of the population is believed to misuse opiates over the course of their lifetime, including illegal drugs like heroin and prescription pain medications such as Oxycontin. These drugs can cause physical dependence. This means that a person relies on the drug to prevent symptoms of withdrawal. Over time, greater amounts of the drug become necessary to produce the same effect (drug tolerance).
Virtual memory is a feature of an operating system (OS) that allows a computer to compensate for shortages of physical memory by temporarily transferring pages of data from random access memory (RAM) to disk storage. Download this free guide.
A virtual machine is nothing but a data file on a physical computer that can be moved and copied to another computer, just like a normal data file. The computers in the virtual environment use two types of file structures: one defining the hardware and the other defining the hard drive. The virtualization software, or the hypervisor, offers caching technology that can be used to cache changes to the virtual hardware or the virtual hard disk for writing at a later time. This technology enables a user to discard the changes done to the operating system, allowing it to boot from a known state.