Microsoft developed the first paravisor in the industry, and for years, we have been enhancing the paravisor offered to Azure customers. In this blog, we announce the release of a new, open source paravisor, called OpenHCL.
Intro
From the beginning of the cloud computing era, virtualization technology has enabled compute workloads to run as virtual machines (VMs) in a server environment. As hardware has evolved, and n...
Updated Aug 21, 2026
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