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>>hugodu+(OP)
Listen people, Firecracker is NOT A HYPERVISOR. A hypervisor runs right on the hardware. KVM is a hypervisor. Firecracker is a process that controls KVM. If you want to call firecracker (and QEMU, when used in conjunction with KVM) a VMM ("virtual machine monitor") I won't complain. But please please please, we need a word for what KVM and Xen are, and "hypervisor" is the best fit. Stop using that word for a user-level process like Firecracker.

>>gwd+j3
> virtual machine monitor

Is it good to think of libvirt as a virtual machine mointor, or is that more "virtual machine management"?

>>Muffin+Qc
It's a lot of glue to present a consistent interface but it also does the management part.

"API to virtualization system" would probably be closest approximation but it also does some more advanced stuff like coordinating cross-host VM migration