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title: Lexicon
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date: 2021-11-13T18:47:23.476Z
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editor: markdown
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dateCreated: 2021-11-13T11:58:43.776Z
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# Terms related to virtualization
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When in **bold**, it refers to generic terms, when in *italic*, it refers to specific technologies or software
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* *AMD Vi*
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* *AMD SEV*:
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* *crossvm*:
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* **Emulated devices**:
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* *Firecracker*:
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* **Hypervisor**: A hypervisor or Virtual Machine Monitor is a piece of software
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* **HVM**:
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* *Intel VT-d*:
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* *Intel VT-x*:
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* *Intel GVT-d*:
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* **IOMMU**:
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* **Kernel space**:
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* **KVM**: The Kernel-based Virtual Machine module for Linux.
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* **Nested-passthrough**:
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* **Nested-virtualization**:
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* **Machine-level virtualization**:
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* **OS-level virtualization**:
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* **Passthrough**:
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* **Paravirtualization**:
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* *QEMU*: QEMU, shorts for QEMU is not an EMUlator, allows for emulating a great number of systems.
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* *Qubes OS*:
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* *Spectrum OS*:
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* **Type 1 hypervisor**:
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* **Type 2 hypervisor**:
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* **UEFI**:
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* **User space**:
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* *Xen*:
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* **Vhost**:
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* **Virtio devices**:
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* **Virtual machine**:
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* **Virtualization**: allowing the recreation of software-based computers sitting on top of real, physical or bare-metal hardware
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* **VFIO**:
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