It's also worth mentioning that even if you do not have a virtualized PC, you might still not be running on bare metal. Case in point: Java applications. They r

It's also worth mentioning that even if you do not have a virtualized PC, you might still not be running on bare metal. Case in point: Java applications. They run in a language-specific virtual machine. (Also Scala, Clojure etc.) One could make an argument that this is also true for interpreted languages, but that gets into some splitting of hairs regarding the definition.