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docs: describe Alioth as a virtual machine monitor - #497

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Alioth itself does not implement the hypervisor; it relies on KVM on Linux and Apple's Hypervisor framework on macOS. Calling it a Type-2 hypervisor is therefore inaccurate, so use the more appropriate term virtual machine monitor (VMM) in the README and crate descriptions.

Alioth itself does not implement the hypervisor; it relies on KVM on
Linux and Apple's Hypervisor framework on macOS. Calling it a Type-2
hypervisor is therefore inaccurate, so use the more appropriate term
virtual machine monitor (VMM) in the README and crate descriptions.

Signed-off-by: Changyuan Lyu <changyuanl@google.com>
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