virtual machine

English

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Noun

virtual machine (plural virtual machines)

1. (computing) A software emulation of a computer that runs in an isolated partition of a real computer.
2. (computing) A computer system that is implemented in software rather than hardware and that runs bytecode.

Synonyms

• VM

Hypernyms

• machine

Hyponyms

• process virtual machine
• system virtual machine

Translations

Translations

Chinese: Mandarin: 虛擬機 / 虚拟机 (zh) (xūnǐjī) Finnish: virtuaalikone (fi) French: machine virtuelle (fr) f Galician: máquina virtual (gl) f German: virtuelle Maschine f Greek: εικονική μηχανή (el) f (eikonikí michaní) Indonesian: komputer virtual, mesin virtual Japanese: 仮想マシン (かそうマシン, kasō mashin), 仮想機械 (かそうきかい, kasō mashin) Korean: 가상 머신 (gasang meosin) Lithuanian: virtualioji mašina (lt) f Macedonian: виртуелка f (virtuelka) Polish: komputer wirtualny m, maszyna wirtualna (pl) f Portuguese: máquina virtual f Serbo-Croatian: virtualno računalo n, virtualni stroj m Spanish: máquina virtual f Swedish: virtuell maskin c Turkish: sanal makine (tr) Vietnamese: máy ảo

Further reading

• virtual machine on Wikipedia.Wikipedia