Hypervisor

nounid 2754·updated May 9, 2026

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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.

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Entity Type

System95%rule-basedr:entity.system.compute.v1

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plural: Hypervisors
possessive: Hypervisor's
pluralpossessive: Hypervisors'

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Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council (FFIEC) IT Examination Handbook Infobase, Glossary1 senseview framework →

§1: 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.

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