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- Virtualization is the creation of a virtual (rather than actual) version of something, such as an operating system, a server, a storage device or network resources.
Dell - Cite This Source - This Definition - the decoupling of a resource or request for a service from the underlying physical delivery of that service such that the consumer needs no knowledge of the characteristics of the delivery system.
Versatile Systems - Cite This Source - This Definition - A software technology allowing an operating system to run unmodified on an isolated virtual environment, called virtual machine, where a platform's physical characteristics and behaviours are reproduced.
virtualization.info - Cite This Source - This Definition - bare-metal, dom0, emulation, full virtualization, guest operating system, host OS (Operating System), hosted environment, Hosted Virtualization, operating system virtualization, partitioned, server virtualization, virtual machine
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