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# Terms related to virtualization
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### []{#anchor-8}Emulator
## Terms related to virtualization
### Emulator
Emulators or virtualizers are software that provide material components
similar to physical hardware, but that are made of computer code instead
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machine monitor. In the latter case, it can leverage hardware
acceleration,
### []{#anchor-9}Hardware-assisted virtualization
### Hardware-assisted virtualization
Hardware-assisted virtualization is a feature of certain computer
hardware made to take advantage of virtualization.
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performance for virtualized workloads, significantly reducing the gap in
performance between a virtual machine and a physical one.
### []{#anchor-10}Nested-virtualization
### Nested-virtualization
Nested-virtualization refers to the ability to run a virtual machine
inside another virtual machine.
### []{#anchor-11}Virtualization
### Virtualization
Most computers are made of hardware and software. By analogy, the brain
that animates the cells to control a body can be thought as the
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virtualization, multiple operating systems can run concurrently on a
physical machine.
### []{#anchor-12}Hypervisor
### Hypervisor
A hypervisor is an operating system or firmware that is designed to run
guest systems: it handles scheduling, execution of hyper privileged
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- Xen (2003)[^7].
- Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) module for Linux (2007)[^8].
### []{#anchor-13}Device
### Device
Devices are computer components that can be attached to machines. They
can be classified in two ways : physical or emulated.
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generic piece of software-based hardware which doesn't
replicate a specific hardware component.
### []{#anchor-14}Paravirtualization
### Paravirtualization
Paravirtualization refers to the emulation practice of letting an
operating system running in a virtualized environment know that it is
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of emulating every single command of an IDE, SATA, SCSI or NVMe device,
as it is the case for model-based emulation.
### []{#anchor-15}Virtual machine
### Virtual machine
A virtual machine is a recreation of a real, physical, silicon-based
computer using software. It performs almost exactly as a physical