Virtual machine image
For our purposes, a virtual machine image is a preinstalled application and a hardware description—a setup ready for virtualization. It typically consists of a hypervisor-specific configuration file and one or more disk images containing a pre-installed application to run. Sometimes, the virtual machine image is referred to as virtual image or virtual appliance.
See also Virtualization.
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