• Hardware virtualization is the virtualization of computers as complete hardware platforms, certain logical abstractions of their componentry, or only...
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    machine monitor. Hardware virtualization is not the same as hardware emulation. Hardware-assisted virtualization facilitates building a virtual machine monitor...
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  • x86 virtualization is the use of hardware-assisted virtualization capabilities on an x86/x86-64 CPU. In the late 1990s x86 virtualization was achieved...
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    physical machine. Modern hypervisors use hardware-assisted virtualization, with virtualization-specific hardware features on the host CPUs providing assistance...
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  • a virtual network. Network virtualization involves platform virtualization, often combined with resource virtualization. Network virtualization is categorized...
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    Desktop virtualization can be used in conjunction with application virtualization and user profile management systems, now termed user virtualization, to...
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  • applications running on a virtual machine. GPU virtualization is used in various applications such as desktop virtualization, cloud gaming and computational science...
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  • being abstracted (physical hardware). Full application virtualization requires a virtualization layer. Application virtualization layers replace part of the...
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  • a list of virtualization-capable IOMMU-supporting hardware. List of Intel and Intel-based hardware that supports VT-d (Intel Virtualization Technology...
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    two levels of virtual memory; few if any operating systems do so, instead using only paging. Early non-hardware-assisted x86 virtualization solutions combined...
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  • are capable of hardware-assisted virtualization, which enables efficient full virtualization by using virtualization-specific hardware capabilities, primarily...
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  • time-sharing model, virtualization provides a higher level of security, dependent on the type of virtualization used, as the individual virtual servers are mostly...
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  • OS-level virtualization is an operating system (OS) virtualization paradigm in which the kernel allows the existence of multiple isolated user space instances...
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  • Address Translation (SLAT), also known as nested paging, is a hardware-assisted virtualization technology which makes it possible to avoid the overhead associated...
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  • components of virtual machines in hardware virtualization, but they are also widely used for various purposes unrelated to virtualization, such as for...
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  • application virtualization software Comparison of OS emulation or virtualization apps on Android Popek and Goldberg virtualization requirements Virtual DOS machine...
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    Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) is a free and open-source virtualization module in the Linux kernel that allows the kernel to function as a hypervisor...
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  • In virtualization, single root input/output virtualization (SR-IOV) is a specification that allows the isolation of PCI Express resources for manageability...
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    absence of hardware-assisted virtualization, versions 6.0.24 and earlier of VirtualBox could adopt a standard software-based virtualization approach. This...
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    Xen (redirect from XAPI (virtualization))
    privileged instructions are provided by hardware virtualization instructions (if the host processor supports x86 virtualization, e.g., Intel VT-x and AMD-V), or...
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  • Network functions virtualization (NFV) is a network architecture concept that leverages IT virtualization technologies to virtualize entire classes of...
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  • computing, virtualization is the use of a computer to simulate another computer. The following is a chronological list of virtualization technologies...
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    variant of device drivers. They are used to emulate a hardware device, particularly in virtualization environments, for example when a DOS program is run...
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  • processor is running a protected mode operating system. It is a hardware virtualization technique that allowed multiple 8086 processors to be emulated...
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  • without the virtual memory feature needed for virtualization, but added it in the August 1972 Advanced Function announcement. Virtualization has been featured...
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    Emulator (category Computer hardware)
    semantically differs from network emulation. Hardware virtualization is the virtualization of computers as complete hardware platforms, certain logical abstractions...
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    a distributed virtual multilayer switch. The main purpose of Open vSwitch is to provide a switching stack for hardware virtualization environments, while...
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  • of traditional server virtualization, which partitions a single physical system so that multiple OSes can be run on the hardware. The technology is primarily...
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    QEMU (category Free virtualization software)
    space program access to the hardware virtualization features of various processors, with which QEMU can offer virtualization for x86, PowerPC, and S/390...
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  • development Supercomputer architectures Cross-platform software Hardware virtualization Third platform Platform ecosystem "What I Talk About When I Talk...
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