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diff --git a/docs/glossary.rst b/docs/glossary.rst index 4fa044b..2857731 100644 --- a/docs/glossary.rst +++ b/docs/glossary.rst @@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ Accelerator A specific API used to accelerate execution of guest instructions. It can be hardware-based, through a virtualization API provided by the host OS (kvm, hvf, -whpx, ...), or software-based (tcg). See this description of `supported +whpx, mshv, ...), or software-based (tcg). See this description of `supported accelerators<Accelerators>`. Board @@ -101,9 +101,8 @@ manage a virtual machine. QEMU is a virtualizer, that interacts with various hypervisors. In the context of QEMU, an hypervisor is an API, provided by the Host OS, -allowing to execute virtual machines. Linux implementation is KVM (and supports -Xen as well). For MacOS, it's HVF. Windows defines WHPX. And NetBSD provides -NVMM. +allowing to execute virtual machines. Linux provides a choice of KVM, Xen +or MSHV; MacOS provides HVF; Windows provides WHPX; NetBSD provides NVMM. .. _machine: |