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These week Ben and Ian discuss various virtualization you can do for different tasks on your computer.
Virtualization Of Hardware, Software, and Drivers
Virtual Audio Drivers and Streaming – Virtual audio drivers like Virtual Audio Cable allows a user to transfer audio streams from one application
to another
- VB-Audio Voice Meeter (Windows)
- VB-Audio Virtual Audio Cable Driver (Windows)
- VB-Audio Virtual Audio Cable Driver A and B (Windows)
- Virtual Audio Cable (Windows)
- Virtual Audio Pipeline (Windows)
- Virtual Audio Stream (Windows)
- Virtual Audio Capture Grabber (Windows)
- Jack (Windows)
- Jack (Mac OS)
- Audio Hijack Pro (Mac OS)
- Line-In (Mac OS)
- WireTap Studio (Mac OS)
- Soundflower (Mac OS)
- WavTap (Mac OS)
Creating a virtual audio device in Mac OS
Creating a Generic Kernel Extension with Xcode
Aggregate Devices in Mac OS
How to create Aggregate Devices
Tutorial: Combining Audio Devices in Macs
How can I create an aggregate device?
Virtual Video Drivers, Streaming, and Mirroring – A mirror driver is a display driver for a virtual device that
mirrors the drawing operations of one or more additional physical display devices
- UltraVNC Mirror Driver (Windows)
- X.Org (Windows)
- ZoneScreen (Windows)
- Vidblaster (Windows)
- VirtualDub (Windows)
- Mirage Driver (Windows)
- VCam (Windows)
- SplitCam (Windows)
- ManyCam (Windows/Mac OS)
- VirtualVTR (Mac OS)
- WireCast (Windows/Mac OS)
- Camtwist (Mac OS)
- BoinxTV (Mac OS)
Virtual Disk Drivers and Software – A virtual disk (also known as a virtual drive or a RAM drive) is a file that
represents as a physical disk drive to a guest operating system
- MagicISO Maker (Windows)
- gBurner (Windows)
- Virtual CloneDrive (Windows)
- TotalMounter (Windows)
- Alcohol 120% (Windows)
- DAEMON Tools Lite (Windows/Mac OS)
- Virtual CD-RW (Mac OS)
- Create and use virtual disk images on your Mac
Virtual Storage – Storage virtualization is the amalgamation of multiple network storage devices into what appears
to be a single storage unit
- Cloud Computing
- Cloud Computing Software
- Cloud Storage
- Cloud Backup Services
- Raid Levels Explained
- How to Setup a RAID System
- Visualize Your RAID
Virtual Input Drivers and Software – Emulating Interface: A “system” that accepts information from an alternate
input device and transforms it into keystrokes or other input information in the computer
- General Input Device Emulating Interface
- PPJoy (Windows)
- VJoy Virtual Joystick Driver (Windows)
- Input Simulator (Windows)
- Xpadder (Windows)
- Programmable Input Emulator (Windows)
- AutoHotkey (Windows)
- IronAHK (Mac OS)
- Automator Virtual Input (Mac OS)
- Keymando (Mac OS)
- How to Assign a Trigger in Quicksilver (Mac OS)
- ControllerMate (Mac OS)
- Joystick Mapper (Mac OS)
- Keyboard Maestro (Mac OS)
- TextExpander (Mac OS)
Virtual Printer Drivers and Software – A virtual printer is a piece of computer software whose user interface and
API resemble that of a printer driver, but which is not connected with a physical computer printer
- List of virtual printer software
- Creating a Virtual Postscript Printer in Windows using Ghostscript (Windows)
- Virtual Printer Information & Troubleshooting (Windows)
- Create a virtual PDF printer (Mac OS)
- 4-Sight Fax – Network Fax Software (Windows/Mac OS)
- Virtual printer and PDF converter for iPhone and iPad
Virtual Machines – A virtual machine (VM) is a software implementation of a machine (e.g., a computer) that executes
programs like a physical machine
- List of Platform Virtualization Software
- Virtual Box (Windows/Mac OS/Linux)
- Parallels (Windows)
- VMware Player (Windows/Mac OS)
- VMware Workstation (Windows/Mac OS)
- Virtual PC (Windows/Mac OS)
- List of remote desktop software
- List of Java-based remote desktop software
- Video game console emulator
- List of video game emulators
Virtual Servers – A Virtual Server is created by partitioning the physical server into multiple mini servers,
made possible by the technology of Server Virtualization
- Virtual Private Server
- A Complete Explanation of Virtual Servers
- How Server Virtualization Works
- What is a Virtual Server?
- Virtual Private Network
- Free VPN Services
Finally, Ian brings us some gaming trivia this week.