In computing, file virtualization is a field of storage virtualization operating on computer file level. It involves uniting multiple storage devices...

computer. In hardware virtualization, the host machine is the machine that is used by the virtualization and the guest machine is the virtual machine. The words...

A virtual file system (VFS) or virtual filesystem switch is an abstract layer on top of a more concrete file system. The purpose of a VFS is to allow client...

a storage system, there are two primary types of virtualization that can occur: Block virtualization used in this context refers to the abstraction (separation)...

another (host) file system as a file. A common example is virtualization: one user can run an experimental Linux distribution (using the ext4 file system) in...

VHD (Virtual Hard Disk) and its successor VHDX are file formats representing a virtual hard disk drive (HDD). They may contain what is found on a physical...

Hardware virtualization is the virtualization of computers as complete hardware platforms, certain logical abstractions of their componentry, or only the...

hardware-assisted virtualization, with virtualization-specific hardware features on the host CPUs providing assistance to hypervisors. Process virtual machines...

OS-level virtualization is an operating system (OS) virtualization paradigm in which the kernel allows the existence of multiple isolated user space instances...

a list of file formats used by computers, organized by type. Filename extension is usually noted in parentheses if they differ from the file format's name...

The Virtual International Authority File (VIAF) is an international authority file. It is a joint project of several national libraries, operated by the...

VirtualBox". In December 2019, VirtualBox removed support for software-based virtualization and exclusively performs hardware-assisted virtualization...

full virtualization, managed with a web-based user interface similar to other commercial offerings. Proxmox VE is an open-source server virtualization platform...

application virtualization software and the virtualized applications must be correctly licensed. While application virtualization can address file and Registry-level...

application virtualization redirects all of an application's invalid registry operations to a location such as a file. Used together with file virtualization, this...

Virtual File System for Git (VFS for Git), developed by Microsoft, is an extension to the Git version control system. VFS for Git is designed to ease the...

virtualization platforms, including those from VMware, Microsoft, Oracle, and Citrix, can install virtual appliances from an OVF file. Virtualization...

Virtualization Format (OVF) is an open standard for packaging and distributing virtual appliances or, more generally, software to be run in virtual machines...

Building Highly Scalable Enterprise File Serving Solutions. Realtimepublishers. p. 57ff. ISBN 1-931491-47-X. "NAS virtualization explained". TechTarget. 31 Jul...

Virtualization Platform Stratio Generative AI Data Fabric Teeid, part of JBoss Developer Studio TIBCO Data Virtualization Veritas Provisioning File System...

hard disk drives. Server virtualization, or Full virtualization, partitions a single physical server into multiple virtual machines, consolidating multiple...

Microsoft virtualization technology Features new to Windows 7: Virtual hard disks Microsoft Virtual Server Windows 365 About virtualization Virtual disk image...

unified access to the files from any of the cluster nodes, unrelated to the actual location of the data. Disk enclosure File virtualization Global Namespace...

image is a snapshot of a storage device's content – typically stored in a file on another storage device. Traditionally, a disk image was relatively large...

components of virtual machines in hardware virtualization, but they are also widely used for various purposes unrelated to virtualization, such as for...

time-sharing model, virtualization provides a higher level of security, dependent on the type of virtualization used, as the individual virtual servers are mostly...

processing (see below), PC World has referred to VirtualDub as "something of a 'Photoshop' for video files", PC Perspective recommends it for its low overhead...

virtual storage, and remote backup solutions. Personal file storage services are designed for private individuals to store and access their files online...

memory-mapped file is a segment of virtual memory that has been assigned a direct byte-for-byte correlation with some portion of a file or file-like resource...

A file signature is data used to identify or verify the content of a file. Such signatures are also known as magic numbers or magic bytes and are usually...