Virtualization terms starting with P

20 terms

  1. P2V (Physical to Virtual) migration migrating an operating system and its installed applications from a physical computer to a virtual machine (or a partition), without modification.
  2. Pacifica A code name for AMD's version of virtualization assist, included in some 64-bit AMD processors. See AMD Virtualization.
  3. Pacifica, AMD See virtualization hardware assist.
  4. para-virtualization A virtualization approach that exports a modified hardware abstraction which requires operating systems to be explicitly modified and ported to run.
  5. paravirtualization Para-virtualization uses a special kernel, sometimes referred to as the xen kernel or kernel-xen to virtualized another environment while using the hosts…
  6. paravirtualized drivers Para-virtualized drivers are device drivers that operate on fully virtualized linux guests.
  7. parent partition The partition that manages the virtual machines.
  8. Partition A partition is an individual section of computer storage media such as a hard drive.
  9. partitioned A characteristic of virtualization which refers to the independent nature of the virtual machines allowing them to run different operating systems on the…
  10. partitioning A software technology able to create multiple instances of the same host OS, called partitions, instead of reproducing multiple different physical…
  11. Persistent Disk All disk writes issued by software running inside a virtual machine are immediately and permanently written to a persistent virtual disk.
  12. pervasive computing the ability to perform computing tasks from any location using a variety of devices, being brought about by the convergence of miniaturized electronics…
  13. physical computer A hardware-based computer, as opposed to a software-based virtual machine.
  14. Physical CPU A processor within a physical machine. See also Virtual CPU.
  15. physical disk A hard disk drive in a virtual machine that is mapped to a physical drive or partition on the host machine.
  16. policy-based automation policies automate resource management based on business-defined conditions such as time of day, trouble alarms, and capacity or availability issues by…
  17. Preallocated Disk A type of virtual disk in which all the host disk space for the virtual machine is allocated at the time the virtual disk is created.
  18. preemptive multitasking the execution of more than one program at a time on the same CPU with time-sharing strictly controlled by a scheduler.
  19. processor a person who acts as a liason between your Loan Officer and the Underwriter to help facilitate the flow of paperwork which takes you from loan application…
  20. Provisioning Provisioning is the act of putting a grid component into the active state so that it is available to a consumer of the service or resource it supplies.