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hypervisorA system program that provides a virtual machine environment. The term came from the IBM mainframe world, which first introduced the virtual machine (virtualization) concept in the form of VM, initially as software only and later enhanced with hardware circuits. See virtual machine. |
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To make things more challenging, virtualization technologies are still evolving into next generation hypervisor environments, which, instead of residing on top of Linux or Microsoft Windows, have their own operating system on bare metal hardware. Based on the Xen[TM] open-source hypervisor, XenEnterprise features broad hardware support for x86 server virtualization solutions. Unlike virtual machines and hypervisors, Virtuozzo OS virtualization addresses the challenges faced by today's datacenters of operating system sprawl. |
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