Hypervisor
nouncandidate·updated May 9, 2026
A piece of software that provides abstraction of all physical resources (such as central processing units, memory, network, and storage) and thus enables multiple computing stacks (consisting of an operating system, middleware and application programs) called virtual machines to be run on a single physical host.
Classifications
Entity Type
System95%rule-basedr:entity.system.compute.v1
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Sensitivity
unclassified
Information Class
unclassified
Variants
- plural
- Hypervisors
- possessive
- Hypervisor's
- pluralpossessive
- Hypervisors'