Virtualisation software divvies up the resources on a single machine among several virtual computer platforms. Each virtual machine can run the same or a different operating system.

虚拟软件将原本在一台电脑上的资源分摊到了几个虚拟计算机平台上，这些平台每一个都能运行相同的或者不同的操作系统。

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Each "virtual computer" encapsulates the operating system and the software applications installed on it.

每个“虚拟计算机”将操作系统和安装在它上面的软件应用程序封装起来。

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For example, software is run by a computer operating system, and needs to be designed to work well with the operating system.

再比如说，应用软件是在计算机的操作系统上运行的，因此需要与操作系统配合默契。

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And if you've ever heard the word driver software that you install in your computer so that your computer, your operating system, Windows or Mac OS, knows how to talk to that piece of hardware, it's that driver software that then empowers the operating systems to send those commands as well, up, the data is laid out on the disk.

并且如果你听说过安装到,电脑中的驱动软件这个词的话，你的操作系统，比如Windows或者是苹果操作系统，通过这个驱动软件我们的电脑，才能知道如何与这个硬件进行通信,正是因为这个驱动软件，操作系统才能根据数据，左右移动的指令来读取磁盘里的数据。

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