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What does hypervisor mean?

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Noun
  1. (computing) A software and/or firmware system that provides a virtual machine and allows it to operate directly on underlying hardware (instead of via emulation), but within specified constraints.
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Give each of your Linux machines a bunch of virtual memory, and let the VM hypervisor worry about paging it in and out.
SierraVisor leverages the ARM TrustZone security extensions to provide greater performance than a standard paravirtualization hypervisor.
The SierraVisor Hypervisor for 64-bit ARM architectures allows multiple operating systems, such as Linux, BSD, or Android, to run concurrently on big.
For additional information on SUSE Cloud and its hypervisor support, visit www.
The hypervisor technology also puts a layer between a physical server and server operating systems and has gained traction with the hardware makers.

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