What Does Host Virtual Machine (Host VM) Mean?
A host virtual machine (host HVM) is a virtual machine operated and hosted from a remote cloud server.
Techopedia Explains Host Virtual Machine (Host VM)
Host virtual machines are among the core virtualization techniques that enable users to create a virtual machine with a user operating system, applications and compute resources in most cases. The virtualization server manages the operation of all the host machines by assigning them static or dynamically scalable infrastructure resources, security and statistical information about their performance and throughput.