This is "bare-metal" in the sense of "not virtualized", meaning the host operating system is not running in a virtual machine. You can see this distinction in c

This is "bare-metal" in the sense of "not virtualized", meaning the host operating system is not running in a virtual machine. You can see this distinction in cloud environments too, for instance most AWS EC2 machine types are virtualized, but AWS also offers "bare metal" instance types that provide direct access to a physical machine.