Your real PC running VirtualBox is called the host; VirtualBox is technically the hypervisor; and any virtualized systems it runs on the host PC are called guests, and are your virtual machines (VM).

Virtual machines can seem juuuuust a bit too geeky for most otherwise computer-friendly people. That's sad, because it's an easy, free way to try an ...

But what if you could create a virtualized instance of your daily driver and run it inside a VM? Turns out, you can actually pull off this insane project with the help of Disk2vhd and VirtualBox.

This free virtual machine host is much improved and faster than VMware under Windows 7.