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dateCreated: 2021-11-13T11:58:43.776Z
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# Terms related to virtualization
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> Section under construction.
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{.is-warning}
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### []{#anchor-8}Emulator
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## Terms related to virtualization
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### Emulator
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Emulators or virtualizers are software that provide material components
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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
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acceleration,
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### []{#anchor-9}Hardware-assisted virtualization
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### Hardware-assisted virtualization
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Hardware-assisted virtualization is a feature of certain computer
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hardware made to take advantage of virtualization.
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performance for virtualized workloads, significantly reducing the gap in
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performance between a virtual machine and a physical one.
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### []{#anchor-10}Nested-virtualization
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### Nested-virtualization
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Nested-virtualization refers to the ability to run a virtual machine
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inside another virtual machine.
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### []{#anchor-11}Virtualization
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### Virtualization
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Most computers are made of hardware and software. By analogy, the brain
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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
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physical machine.
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### []{#anchor-12}Hypervisor
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### Hypervisor
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A hypervisor is an operating system or firmware that is designed to run
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guest systems: it handles scheduling, execution of hyper privileged
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- Xen (2003)[^7].
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- Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) module for Linux (2007)[^8].
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### []{#anchor-13}Device
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### Device
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Devices are computer components that can be attached to machines. They
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can be classified in two ways : physical or emulated.
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generic piece of software-based hardware which doesn't
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replicate a specific hardware component.
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### []{#anchor-14}Paravirtualization
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### Paravirtualization
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Paravirtualization refers to the emulation practice of letting an
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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,
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as it is the case for model-based emulation.
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### []{#anchor-15}Virtual machine
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### Virtual machine
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A virtual machine is a recreation of a real, physical, silicon-based
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computer using software. It performs almost exactly as a physical
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