Noun
hypervisor (plural hypervisors)
(computing) A firmware or software system that provides a virtual machine and allows it to operate directly on underlying hardware (instead of via emulation), but within specified constraints.
Synonym: virtual machine monitor
A beta of VMWare Workstation 2.0 released in January 2000 was the first hypervisor that could run OS/2 at all. Source: Internet
A hypervisor uses native execution to share and manage hardware, allowing multiple different environments, isolated from each other, to be executed on the same physical machine. Source: Internet
At the core, the single brain SPYDR 3.0 acts as a hypervisor and is capable of driving up to eleven displays. Source: Internet
From a technical perspective there are several categories: * Hypervisor-based: The keylogger can theoretically reside in a malware hypervisor running underneath the operating system, which thus remains untouched. Source: Internet
AHV has already proven to be the hypervisor of choice for our customers deploying Citrix XenApp and XenDesktop VDI solutions, but for some use cases AHV was lacking a key function: vGPU support. Source: Internet
"Being able to write to that API or get information out of the API will drive down the cost of ownership because now you can start to manage things within the array, within the hypervisor level, or at a much higher management level," Woo said. Source: Internet