[EgoIncarnate]

Sorry if I wasn't more clear. I wasn't trying to argue for a correct definition of virtualization. My point was that because the use of VM in the title is ambiguous without context when speaking to a general audience, it would have been nice to have a more qualified title.

For me the reason for the distinction between hardware virtualization and emulation based virtualization is the differences in suitability based on instance creation cost, and instruction performance, and as you mention security.

My usage was just an attempt to explain why I saw a distinction, not to pedantically define any of the terms. My apologies if you felt I used them incorrectly.

[binary132]

haha, I probably just had a gut reaction instead of receiving the intent. whoops. I was mainly just thinking back to when I was trying to understand where the line is between things like qemu and kvm and xen and finding that it is a blurrier distinction than I had realized.