Monitoring Virtualized Hardware

Virtualization is often accomplished by software configured to act as though it were physical hardware devices. The virtualization software may be configured to connect to physical hardware. For example, virtual universal serial bus (USB) ports are frequently configured to connect to actual USB hardware, and the virtualization software passes the requests for the hardware in the virtual machine through to the actual hardware. Virtual machine hardware can represent anything you might see in real hardware. Virtual machines can simulate everything required for a computer within a software framework. Although there are many commercial options for virtual machines, there are also open-source options.

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