Hypervisor
- An application that can create a virtual machine
- Types of hypervisors
- Type 1 Hypervisor
- Type 2 Hypervisor
Type 2 Hypervisor
- VMWare Player
- Virtual Machines do not have direct access to the computer hardware
- Relies on the host machine operating system to interact with hardware
- How it works
- Virtual machine → Host OS → Computer Hardware
Type 1 Hypervisor
- Allows virtual machine to access underlying hardware
- Example: VCenter / ESXi
- Type 1 is faster due to direct access
- Better for performance and resource sharing