Paravirtualization
Paravirtualization is another form of server virtualization technology in which the guest operating system running inside the virtual machine communicates with the hypervisor to improve its performance characteristics.
Contrary to the full virtualization technique in which the guest operating system is unaware it is running on top of the virtualized hardware, with paravirtualization the guest operating system is allowed additional communication channels with the underlying hypervisor to make better use of the physical server hardware. Paravirtualization offers guest operating system software interfaces, which are close to the ...
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