Platform virtualization

Okay kiddo, let's talk about platform virtualization! Imagine you have a toy car in your room. You can play with it by yourself, but sometimes you want to share it with your friend who lives far away. But you can't ship your real toy car to your friend, so what can you do?

Well, a platform virtualization is like having a toy box that you can put different toy cars inside. But instead of real toy cars, we're talking about computer programs and systems.

When we talk about virtualization, it means to create a virtual version of something that isn't really there. So, platform virtualization creates a virtual version of a whole computer system. This means that you can create a pretend computer to run different programs on.

One benefit of this is that you can run multiple operating systems, like Windows or Linux, on one physical computer. This helps save space and can be quicker for running multiple programs at once.

In short, platform virtualization is like having a bunch of toy boxes that each contain a pretend world for different computer programs to run in.