paravirtual

English

Etymology

From para- +‎ virtual.

Adjective

paravirtual (not comparable)

1. (computing) approximately virtual (in terms of paravirtualization)
   • 2015, Piyus Kedia, Sorav Bansal, “A Software-only Mechanism for Device Passthrough and Sharing”, in arXiv‎^[1]:

     Compared to the best-known paravirtualization interfaces, our paravirtual interface supports up to 2x higher throughput, and is closer in performance to device passthrough.