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Virtualization

In computing, virtualization (or virtualisation in Commonwealth English; see spelling differences) abbreviated as v12n, is a series of technologies that allows dividing of physical computing resources into a series of virtual machines, operating systems, processes or containers. Virtualization began in the 1960s with IBM CP/CMS. The control program CP…

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Hardware virtualization

Desktop virtualization

Containerization

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Virtualization

Nodes123
Edges122
Triples79
Avg. degree1.98
Density0.01626
Components1

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Virtualization

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related to history · 21
Virtualization → CP/CMS, Each, Each CP/CMS, Hardware-assisted, Hypervisor, IBM, IBM System/370, IBM's CP-40, IBM's VM, Intel VT-x Rings, It, Operation, Principles, Program, Supervisor, System/370, The, This, User, Virtual Machines
related to Desktop virtualization · 8
Virtualization → Desktop, In, Internet, LAN, One, Rather, VDI, Wireless LAN
related to Containerization · 7
Virtualization → CPU, FreeBSD, However, Operating, Such, This, VEs
related to Hardware virtualization · 7
Virtualization → Arch Linux, For, Hardware, Microsoft Windows, Software, The, Windows-based
related to Miscellaneous types · 7
Virtualization → Aggregating RAM, API-driven, Application, Memory, OS, This, Virtual
related to External links · 5
Virtualization → Amit Singh, An Introduction, January, Virtualization Archived, Wayback Machine
related to Full virtualization · 4
Virtualization → Binary, Full, Hardware-assisted, Two
related to Hybrid virtualization · 4
Virtualization → CPU, Hybrid, The, VM
related to Paravirtualization · 4
Virtualization → By, Paravirtualization, The, VMM
see also · 3
Virtualization → AI-assisted, AndroidApplication, Computer

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virtual machine system hardware operating guest software hypervisor host full paravirtualization ibm resources computer hardware-assisted desktop running run physical x86

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Virtualizationis aconcept of separating the logical desktop from the physical machine.Operating system-level virtualization0.90text
standardizationinstance ofprograms running inside a container can only see the container's contents and devices assigned to the container.This provides many of the benefits that virtual machines have0.80text
scalabilityinstance ofprograms running inside a container can only see the container's contents and devices assigned to the container.This provides many of the benefits that virtual machines have0.80text
while using less resources as the kernel is shared between containers.Containerization started gaining prominence in 2014instance ofprograms running inside a container can only see the container's contents and devices assigned to the container.This provides many of the benefits that virtual machines have0.80text
with the introduction of Dockerinstance ofprograms running inside a container can only see the container's contents and devices assigned to the container.This provides many of the benefits that virtual machines have0.80text
API-driven applicationsinstance ofemulating the behavior of specific components in heterogeneous component-based applications0.80text
cloud-based applicationsinstance ofemulating the behavior of specific components in heterogeneous component-based applications0.80text
service-oriented architecturesMemoryMemory virtualizationinstance ofemulating the behavior of specific components in heterogeneous component-based applications0.80text
a hard disk drive or optical disk driveinstance ofa computer program that emulates a disk drive0.80text
Virtualizationrelated to ContainerizationOperating0.60section
Virtualizationrelated to ContainerizationSuch0.60section
Virtualizationrelated to ContainerizationVEs0.60section

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