virtualization

• virtualization (abbr. v12n)
• virtual machine (VM)
• emulator
• system virtual machine (also called SysVM), full virtualization
• hypervisor (also known as a virtual machine monitor (VMM) or virtualizer)
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  • Type-1 (native or bare-metal hypervisors)
  • Type-2 (or hosted hypervisors)
• hardware virtualization
  • the host machine is the machine that is used by the virtualization
  • the guest machine is the virtual machine
  • types:
    • full virtualization
    • paravirtualization
    • hybrid virtualization
• process virtual machine (sometimes called an application virtual machine, or Managed Runtime Environment (MRE))
• OS-level virtualization
• containerization
  • OS containers
  • Application containers