Hyper-V Virtual Machine Management Service

Virtual Machine Management Service is the management engine of Hyper-V. Virtual Machine Management Service (VMM Service or VMMS) is responsible for the management of the virtual machine state for the child partitions. This includes making the right decision to change the virtual machine state, handling the creation of snapshots, and managing the addition or removal of devices. When a virtual machine in a child partition is started, the VMMS spawns a new VM worker process, which is used to perform the management tasks for that virtual machine.

Virtual devices

Virtual devices (vDevices) are the application interfaces that provide control over devices to the VMs. There are two types of vDevices, as follows: ...

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