virtual machine monitor
C9756
concept
A virtual machine monitor is a software layer that creates, runs, and manages virtual machines by abstracting and controlling the underlying physical hardware resources.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| virtual machine monitor canonical | 6 |
| server virtualization software | 1 |
| type-2 hypervisor | 1 |
| virtualization operating system | 1 |
Description generation (CDg)
The one-sentence description above was generated by prompting gpt-5.1 with the class name and this instruction.
Instruction
generate a one-sentence description for a given conceptual class. # Response Format Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the conceptional class]"
Input
Class: virtual machine monitor
Generated description
A virtual machine monitor is a software layer that creates, runs, and manages virtual machines by abstracting and controlling the underlying physical hardware resources.
Instances (9)
| Instance | Via concept surface |
|---|---|
| z/VM | virtualization operating system |
| Firecracker | — |
| VM/370 | — |
| crosvm | — |
| VirtualBox | type-2 hypervisor |
| CP/CMS | — |
| Control Program (CP) | — |
| Microsoft Virtual Server | server virtualization software |
| Cloud Hypervisor | — |