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Open Virtualization Alliance

Oh boy, have you heard of the Open Virtualization Alliance? It's a group of really smart people who have come together to help make using computers more efficient!

You see, sometimes when we use computers, we want to use more than one program at the same time. It's like when you want to play with two different toys at the same time, but you only have two hands! It can get very confusing and too much for the computer to handle.

Now, the Open Virtualization Alliance helps solve this problem by creating something called "virtualization". Virtualization is like creating a "pretend computer" inside another computer! This way, you can have more than one program running at the same time, but each program thinks it's the only one running!

The Open Virtualization Alliance helps make sure that lots of different companies can work together to make this "pretend computer" stuff work really well. They share ideas and make sure that all the different parts work the way they're supposed to. This way, we can use our computers in a much smarter way!