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Definition of hypervisor

a form of control software layer that enables multiple operating systems to run on the same physical hardware. The oldest hypervisor is IBM’s VM -€” but this only runs on S/370-style hardware (where it hosted MVS, VSE, and other operating systems).

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Other definitions of hypervisor

A layer of software that exists above the hardware and below one or more operating systems. It creates partitions to provide isolated execution environments and manages each partition’s access to hardware resources.

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