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Re:Show HN: Wiser – minimal hypervisor boots Linux VM, writt... by gwd on Thursday July 22, 2021 @08:10AM (#27917926)
Why do you call it a hypervisor when it's more like a VMM?

Even the name "VMM" is a quirk of KVM; before KVM, "virtual machine monitor" was another name for a hypervisor: that is, the thing that ran on the bare hardware and provided the virtual hardware interface to the VM. KVM has fairly unique architecture, where a VM is basically a process.

I'm willing to tolerate that "drift" of meaning, because we need a word for the piece of software which converts a process into a VM, and "VMM" is a good fit. But I'd have to really object to the idea of calling such a piece of software a "hypervisor".

If your plan is to make wiser into an actual hypervisor at some point, I'd appreciate it if you made that clear in your README.

Re:Show HN: Wiser – minimal hypervisor boots Linux VM, writt... by flouthoc_fl on Thursday July 22, 2021 @08:17AM (#27917974)
@gwd you are correct vmm is a better fit. I'll update the repo thanks for the feedback :)
Re:Show HN: Wiser – minimal hypervisor boots Linux VM, writt... by jnwatson on Thursday July 22, 2021 @01:43PM (#27921960)
KVM isn't particularly unique in its process architecture. It is a classic "type 2 hypervisor", just as Wiser is.

I do prefer VMM as the term though.