hypervisor


hypervisor

[′hī·pər‚vīz·ər] (computer science) A control program enabling two operating systems to share a common computing system.

hypervisor

A system program that provides a virtual machine environment. The term came from the IBM mainframe world, which first introduced the virtual machine (virtualization) concept in the form of VM, initially as software only and later enhanced with hardware circuits. See virtual machine.