At the heart of virtualization lies a piece of software called a (or Virtual Machine Monitor - VMM). Its primary job is to act as a traffic cop, managing the host's processor, memory, and storage, and distributing these resources to virtual machines (VMs).
Early virtualization relied on binary translation (slow). Modern CPUs include features: hardware virtualization
Here's a step-by-step overview of the hardware virtualization process: At the heart of virtualization lies a piece