hypervisor.

Software or a related system layer that creates or manages virtual machines and mediates their use of physical resources.

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Words that belong together

• a hypervisor host
• a hypervisor failure

On the page

The hypervisor failure stopped every guest machine on the host.

She checked the hypervisor’s resource allocation before increasing the simulation load.

Usage notes

Primary category: sci-fi. Forms: Singular hypervisor; plural hypervisors. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.