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= Platform virtualization software
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Platform virtualization software is a type of technology that allows multiple operating systems or instances of applications to run on a single physical machine by creating a virtualized environment. This is achieved through a software layer, often referred to as a hypervisor, which abstracts and allocates resources from the underlying physical hardware to various virtual machines (VMs).