What is Hypervisor
In simple words, a hypervisor is computer software, firmware or hardware that creates and runs virtual machines.- A computer on which a hypervisor runs one or more virtual machines is called a host machine, and each virtual machine is called a guest machine.
- The hypervisor presents the guest operating systems with a virtual operating platform and manages the execution of the guest operating systems.
- Multiple instances of a variety of operating systems may share the virtualized hardware resources: for example, Linux, Windows, and macOS instances can all run on a single physical x86 machine.
The hypervisor is classified into two types: