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Paravirtualization
In computing, paravirtualization is a virtualization technique that presents a software interface to virtual machines that is similar but not identical to that of the underlying hardware. This requires operating systems to be explicitly ported to run on top of the virtual machine monitor (VMM), which the owner of exclusive rights in a proprietary operating system may decline to allow for strategic purposes, but may enable the VMM itself to be simpler and for the virtual machines that run on it to achieve higher performance.
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