H - Definitions

  • H

    hardware emulation

    Hardware emulation is the use of one hardware device to mimic the function of another hardware device.

  • hardware security

    Hardware security is vulnerability protection that comes in the form of a physical device rather than software that's installed on the hardware of a computer system.

  • HashiCorp

    HashiCorp is a software company that provides a suite of modular DevOps infrastructure provisioning and management products.

  • host virtual machine (host VM)

    A host virtual machine is the server component of a virtual machine the underlying hardware that provides computing resources to support a particular guest VM.

  • hypervisor

    A hypervisor is software that facilitates running multiple virtual machines (VMs) with their own operating systems on a single computer host's hardware.

  • What is hardware virtualization?

    Hardware virtualization, which is also known as server virtualization or simply virtualization, is the abstraction of computing resources from the software that uses those resources.

  • What is hardware-assisted virtualization?

    Hardware-assisted virtualization is the use of a computer's physical components to support the software that creates and manages virtual machines (VMs).