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VMs are not 'simulated hardware' either honestly.
by betaby 6y ago
VMs are not 'simulated hardware' either honestly.
- bckr 6y agoHow would you put it, then?
- etaioinshrdlu 6y agoTo varying degrees they actually are. The hypervisor provides simulated devices and the kernel inside has device drivers to speak to them. For efficiency these devices are as "thin" as possible, but they are still simulated devices. Unless you're using something like PCIe passthrough to give raw hardware access to a VM.