Commits on May 13, 2024

1. doc: "hypervisor" -> "Virtual Machine Monitor (VMM)" …

   In literature, especially those with a microkernel background, virtualization stacks
   are terminologically (and functionally) split into two components: Hypervisor
   (kernel-space) and Virtual Machine Monitor (VMM) (user-space).
   
   This terminological distinction also makes sense in monolithic kernel space (such as
   Linux/KVM), as the functionality is always distributed between kernel- and user-space.
   So, this commit introduces "Virtual Machine Monitor (VMM)" in the docs and replaces
   most occurrences of "Hypervisor". I think this to clarifies things.
   
   It is unfortunate that "cloud-hypervisor" uses "hypervisor" in its name, although it
   is just a VMM for KVM (and other Hypervisor backends).
   
   Some in literature also refer to VMMs as device managers.
   
   I didn't change the NixOS options. But one could deprecate `microvm.hypervisor`
   in favor of `microvm.vmm`.

   

   phip1611 committed May 13, 2024
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