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+title: Lexicon
+description: Lexicon on virtualization
+published: true
+date: 2021-08-12T12:43:36.738Z
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+dateCreated: 2021-08-12T12:43:36.738Z
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+# Terms related to virtualization 
+
+When in **bold**, it refers to generic terms, when in *italic*, it refers to specific technologies or software
+
+* *AMD Vi*
+* *AMD SEV*:
+* *crossvm*: 
+* **Emulated devices**:
+* *Firecracker*: 
+* **Hypervisor**: A hypervisor or Virtual Machine Monitor is a piece of software
+* **HVM**:
+* *Intel VT-d*:
+* *Intel VT-x*:
+* *Intel GVT-d*:
+* **IOMMU**:
+* **Kernel space**:
+* **KVM**: The Kernel-based Virtual Machine module for Linux. 
+* **Nested-passthrough**:
+* **Nested-virtualization**: 
+* **Machine-level virtualization**: 
+* **OS-level virtualization**: 
+* **Passthrough**: 
+* **Paravirtualization**: 
+* *QEMU*: QEMU, shorts for QEMU is not an EMUlator, allows for emulating a great number of systems. 
+* *Qubes OS*:
+* *Spectrum OS*:
+* **Type 1 hypervisor**:
+* **Type 2 hypervisor**:
+* **UEFI**:
+* **User space**:
+* *Xen*:
+* **Vhost**:
+* **Virtio devices**:
+* **Virtual machine**:
+* **Virtualization**: allowing the recreation of software-based computers sitting on top of real, physical or bare-metal hardware
+* **VFIO**: