Emulate vs Paravirtualization - What's the difference?
emulate | paravirtualization |
To attempt to equal or be the same as.
To copy or imitate, especially a person.
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(obsolete) To feel a rivalry with; to be jealous of, to envy.
* 1624 , John Smith, Generall Historie , in Kupperman 1988, p. 146:
(computing) of a program or device: to imitate another program or device
(obsolete) Striving to excel; ambitious; emulous.
* Shakespeare
(computing) An approximate virtualization in which the emulated operating system has been modified for convenience or efficiency.
In computing terms the difference between emulate and paravirtualization
is that emulate is of a program or device: to imitate another program or device while paravirtualization is an approximate virtualization in which the emulated operating system has been modified for convenience or efficiency.As a verb emulate
is to attempt to equal or be the same as.As an adjective emulate
is striving to excel; ambitious; emulous.As a noun paravirtualization is
an approximate virtualization in which the emulated operating system has been modified for convenience or efficiency.emulate
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Alternative forms
* (archaic)Verb
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- But the councell then present emulating my successe, would not thinke it fit to spare me fortie men to be hazzarded in those unknowne regions [...].
See also
* mimic * copy * imitate * simulateAdjective
(en adjective)- A most emulate pride.