[ Thanks to Adi Lane for this link.
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“Virtualization is a concept that has been around for quite some
time. Succinctly, it’s the process of taking something and making
it look like something else. Applying this concept to a computer
system allows different users to view that single system
differently (for example, a single computer that runs both Linux
and Microsoft Windows concurrently). This is commonly called full
virtualization.“Virtualization can also take a more complicated form, where a
single computer appears as multiple architectures (to one user,
it’s a standard x86 platform; to another, it’s an IBM Power PC
platform). This form of virtualization is commonly known as
hardware emulation…”