virtualization
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- History
- Hardware virtualization
- Full virtualization
- Binary translation
- Hardware-assisted<span class="anchor" id="Hardware assisted"></span>
- Paravirtualization
- History
- Hybrid virtualization
- Desktop virtualization
- Containerization
- Miscellaneous types
- Benefits and disadvantages
- See also
- References
- External links
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In computing, virtualization (or virtualisation in Commonwealth English; see spelling differences,) abbreviated as v12n, is a series of technologies that allows dividing of physical computing resources into a series of virtual machines, operating systems, processes or containers. Virtualization began in the 1960s with IBM CP/CMS. The control program CP provided each user with a simulated stand-alone System/360 computer.