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software portability

Being able to move software from one machine platform to another. It refers to system software or application software that can be recompiled for a different platform or to software that is available for two or more different platforms. See portable application. Contrast with data portability.
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Where the hypervisor added software portability in the software domain ioV will do the same for the infrastructure domain.
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