Migration (virtualization)

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In the context of virtualization, where a guest simulation of an entire computer is actually merely a software virtual machine (VM) running on a host computer under a hypervisor, migration (also known as teleportation,^[1] also known as live migration) is the process by which a running virtual machine is moved from one physical host to another, with little or no disruption in service.