Hypervisor

Hypervisor
Hypervisor or virtual machine manager is a software program that allows multiple operating systems to share a single hardware. Each operating system is independent from each other and having own recourses. There are two types of hypervisor

Type1 hypervisor run directly on the hardware also called Bare-Metal Hypervisor. The Guest OS run on the level above hypervisor. Example:- Xen, Citrix, Xenserver, VMware Esxi, Microsoft Hyper-V.

Type2 hypervisors run on a host operating system that provides virtualization services and called hosted hypervisor. Example:- VMware Workstation, Virtual Box.

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