Yes, and processes in a traditional OS have hardware support too through the MMU and things. At the end of the day <i>something</i> needs to schedule processes&#x2F;vms, and <i>something</i> needs to coordinate disk writes and what I&#x27;m driving at here is that whether you call them processes and a kernel or vms and a hypervisor, you arrive at the same thing, except operating systems are mature at that task, and hypervisors are not.