# Virtualisation VS emulation

**URL:** <http://discourse.heig-vd.ch/t/virtualisation-vs-emulation/105>\
**Category:** Linux distribution & app security\
**Created:** [March 26, 2020, 8:27am UTC](http://discourse.heig-vd.ch/t/virtualisation-vs-emulation/105 "2020-03-26T08:27:17Z")\
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**Author:** ![jzerbib](http://discourse.heig-vd.ch/user_avatar/discourse.heig-vd.ch/jzerbib/32/45_2.png) [@jzerbib](http://discourse.heig-vd.ch/u/jzerbib)\
**Post date:** [March 26, 2020, 8:27am UTC](http://discourse.heig-vd.ch/t/virtualisation-vs-emulation/105/1 "2020-03-26T08:27:17Z")

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As for the second part of my TB, I would like to use the school’s softwares using their licenses with the strong garantee that their use would be licit.

That would mean emulating or virtualising a software to garantee its use on the school’s network for example and adding a layer of security regarding the read/write permissions on the filesystem.

My first issue was to choose between the two aforementionned processes.

Emulation provides a wider range of simulation of softwares and therefore allows us to work on a wider spectrum. The matter regarding this technology is that it is asking more ressources than virtualisation.

That is the reason why I chose to go with virtualisation as I will not need to simulates some PowerPC CPU softwares but I will need to optimie perfomances in order for a student to use my TB.

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**Author:** ![Zoruk](http://discourse.heig-vd.ch/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/z/ed655f/32.png) [@Zoruk](http://discourse.heig-vd.ch/u/Zoruk)\
**Post date:** [April 1, 2020, 9:23am UTC](http://discourse.heig-vd.ch/t/virtualisation-vs-emulation/105/2 "2020-04-01T09:23:46Z")

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Did you think about running the licensed software on servers using X forwarding or VNC ? And for easy use just mount the user home on the server using something like sshfs ?

This might require powerful servers and a good network, but it ensures that the software can only be run within the school environment.