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 The purpose of this project is to make it easy to run virtual machines on top of the seL4 microkernel.
 
 This project contains three parts:
-* `src/`: The source code of libvmm, a library for virtual-machime-monitors (VMM) to create and manage virtual machines on seL4.
+* `src/`: The source code of libvmm, a library for virtual-machine-monitors (VMM) to create and manage virtual machines on seL4.
 * `examples/`: Examples for using libvmm.
 * `tools/`: Tools that are useful when developing systems using virtual machines, but are not
   necessary for using the library.