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Expand Up @@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ The interface that a guest must implement is specific to the associated [host](#

A micro virtual machine is an execution environment managed by a hypervisor that isolates a [guest](#guest) from the [host](#host). A hypervisor prevents the guest from directly accessing the host's resources, such as memory, filesystem, devices, memory or CPU.

We use the term Micro Virtual Machine as the VMs are very lightweight compared to traditional VMs, they contains no operating system or other unnecessary components. The goal is to provide a minimal environment for executing workloads with low latency and high density. However the isolation provided by the hypervisor is the same as that of a traditional VM.
We use the term Micro Virtual Machine as the VMs are very lightweight compared to traditional VMs, containing no operating system or other unnecessary components. The goal is to provide a minimal environment for executing workloads with low latency and high density. However the isolation provided by the hypervisor is the same as that of a traditional VM.

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