What is Virtual Machine Monitor (VMM)?

Definition of Virtual Machine Monitor (VMM)

Virtual machine manager (VMM) is a software program that helps in creating and maintaining virtualized environments by managing the virtual machines connected in a network.

How does Virtual Machine Monitor (VMM) works?

In case of Virtual machine manager (VMM), a single software or operating system is used to manage all of the virtual machines connected in a network.

Virtual machine manager (VMM) is itself operated over a host machine.

Virtual machine manager (VMM) operate and maintain the resources of all connected virtual machines like memory, computing power, I/O (input / output) resources etc.

How and where Virtual Machine Monitor (VMM) are used?

It is used in virtualized environment in which all of the connected virtual machines are managed by a single host machine.