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ACPI

Advanced Configuration and Power Interface is an open specification that defines common interfaces for hardware recognition, power management, and hardware configuration.

ADSM

Active Directory Service Marker, a subcomponent of Virtual Machine Management Service (VMMS) that provides registration and management of service connection points (SCP) in Active Directory.

agent

A software application that provides remote functions and interfaces for another application.

AMD-V

AMD’s virtualization technology that provides hardware virtualization features that can be leveraged by software vendors to extend their virtualization solution architectures.

API

Application programming interface.

application-level virtualization

Virtualization approach that ...

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