Rebecca Walter wrote:
the physical hardware into account IMHO - sometimes you what to express that you use a (phys) machine (server) to be the virtualization host.
true. But why do you add a level of complexity? simply call it "the physical host"... "serveur" means nothing at all, any machine is a server at a moment or an an other
Hope that make things more clear.
as soon as such list is needed, you can be sure the things are not clear at all for non specialists...
if we keep common sense words, we have "physical computers" and "virtual computers". each of then can host some OS and need communication channels between them.
and don't forget than any new application need new vocabulary for pattent problems, the only simple case being a RFC.
I found no RFC on the subject, only
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_computer
jdd