When A Computer Or An Operating System uses software to do anything it normally can't, the enabling technology tends to get labeled "virtualiza-tion." Well, don't believe everything you read (except here). Let's see what virtualization is and is not. System virtualization rescinds operating systems' right to own, or refusal to share, property-hardware resources including memory, CPU cycles, allocated units of storage, I/O ports, and even the display, mouse, and keyboard. Operating systems expect exclusive ownership of system hardware, a lamentable remnant of such dinosaur OSes as CP/M and MS-DOS.
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