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Virtual Iron
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Hardware virtualization
Hardware virtualization is the virtualization of computers as complete hardware platforms, certain logical abstractions of their componentry, or only the functionality required to run various operating systems. Virtualization hides the physical characteristics of a computing platform from the users, presenting instead an abstract computing platform. At its origins, the software that controlled virtualization was called a "control program", but the terms "hypervisor" or "virtual machine monitor" became preferred over time.
Full virtualization
In computer science, full virtualization (fv) employs techniques used to create instances of an environment, as opposed to simulation, which models the environment; or emulation, which replicates the target environment such as certain kinds of virtual machine environments. Full virtualization requires that every salient feature of the hardware be reflected into one of several virtual machines – including the full instruction set, input/output operations, interrupts, memory access, and whatever other elements are used by the software that runs on the bare machine, and that is intended to run in a virtual machine.
X86 virtualization
x86 virtualization is the use of hardware-assisted virtualization capabilities on an x86/x86-64 CPU. In the late 1990s x86 virtualization was achieved by complex software techniques, necessary to compensate for the processor's lack of hardware-assisted virtualization capabilities while attaining reasonable performance. In 2005 and 2006, both Intel (VT-x) and AMD (AMD-V) introduced limited hardware virtualization support that allowed simpler virtualization software but offered very few speed benefits.
Machine virtuelle
thumb|Machine virtuelle des assistants personnels Palm. En informatique, une machine virtuelle (anglais virtual machine, abr. VM) est d'un appareil informatique créée par un logiciel d'émulation ou instanciée sur un hyperviseur. Le logiciel d'émulation simule la présence de ressources matérielles et logicielles telles que la mémoire, le processeur, le disque dur, voire le système d'exploitation et les pilotes, permettant d'exécuter des programmes dans les mêmes conditions que celles de la machine simulée.