Virtual Machine — is a hardware or software system, emulating hardware support for specific OS or running software related to its OS (target is a target or guest Operating System) on other Operating System (host is Host OS, the host platform) or some virtualized platform built on its environment, isolated from one another program and even operating systems.

In some cases it is unneeded to provide ICS with separate computer, as we can have a Virtual Machine. For instance you can run ICS on virtual machine based on server or even workstation in small-office environment, which will provide significant savings.

Currently ICS supports following virtual environments:

• VMWare Workstation и VMWare ESXi

• Virtual Box

• Microsoft Hyper-V