By Sachin Kumar 
Virtualization can be defined as the process of creating multiple copies of an object.
A virtual machine is a virtualization of a machine. The software that creates multiple copies of a machine is called a virtual machine monitor (VMM) or a hypervisor.
Each virtual machine have its own OS called ‘guest OS’ and the OS on which hypervisor is running is called ‘host OS’.
The hypervisor allows the sharing of hardware resources by time multiplexing.
