ICore Virtual Accounts
iCore Virtual Accounts is free download OS level virtualization(container-based virtualization) for Microsoft Windows. The use of such a virtual machine as a sandbox for safer browsing and trying new software provides an additional layer of security.
The program is an isolated virtual machine that runs on top of existing hardware and operating system. It allows the user to create multiple virtual accounts (virtual machines) that can be easily created or deleted without affecting each others’ state or the state of the core operating system.
Such machines create and capture the output of a 'virtual' account inside of a virtual disk. Only the changes to specific files and programs accessible to that virtual account will be stored in the virtual disk attached to that account. You can install programs inside of it which will be sandboxed from the entire system, existing only inside of the virtual disk. Each virtual account has full dedicated PC functionality with its own processes, files, and applications by using a virtualization layer in the kernel of the host OS.
In contrast, programs accessible to all users of the computer will be usable in the virtual accounts without taking up space there, but the settings and bookmarks for the users of that account will stay inside the virtual disk.
Technical overview
For every application and/or user, the program is an autonomous OS, with its own register, process, files, services and so on.
Software from vendors can run inside a container without specific modifications or adjustment.
See also
- Comparison of platform virtual machines
- Parallels Virtuozzo Containers
- OpenVZ Virtualization Technology
- FreeBSD Jail
- Solaris Containers
- HyperVM, Web based distributed management software.
- Linux-VServer
- Operating system-level virtualization
- Solaris Containers
- Sandbox (computer security)
External links
ru:Icore virtual accounts