I could never understand why the makers of KVM the virtual machine thing didn't realize they had overloaded an acronym. It isn't as if they weren't likely to have come across KVMs in their work. Were they non-native-English speakers perhaps?
Software devs aren't sysadmins, I imagine most of the people involved here never have been responsible for actual production physical servers before and never had to use one.
Web front end developers sure. Kernel hackers though??