What is a hypervisor?

Hyper visor is a firmware or low level program that acts as a virtual machine manager. A system on which hypervisor is running one or more virtual machines is known as host machine. Each virtual machine is called guest machine. One can classify hypervisor into two categories :

  1. Type 1 / native / Bare-Metal

  2. Type 2 / Hosted
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