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A hypervisor is the virtualization layer that creates and runs virtual machines, sharing one physical host's CPU, memory and devices among isolated guests.
Nested virtualization runs a hypervisor inside a virtual machine, letting a guest create its own VMs for labs, CI pipelines, emulators and sandboxed workloads.
A Type 1 hypervisor is virtualization software that runs directly on server hardware and partitions it into isolated virtual machines.
A Type 2 hypervisor is a hosted hypervisor that runs virtual machines as applications on top of a conventional desktop or server operating system.
A vCPU is a virtual processor presented to a virtual machine by a hypervisor and scheduled onto physical cores or hardware threads of the host.
A virtual machine is a software-defined computer that runs its own operating system on hardware shared through a hypervisor, the core unit of virtualization.
A VM snapshot preserves the disk state, and optionally the memory, of a virtual machine at one moment so the machine can later be reverted to…