Type 1 and Type 2 Hypervisors

Type 1 Hypervisor
Location of type 1 and 2 hypervisors.

Runs directly on the hardware.
This makes it essentially an OS.


Type 1 video

Type 2 Hypervisor
Table of hypervisor examples.

This is a program that runs in an underlying OS. For example, Parallels runs on MacOS, and allows Windows or Linux to run on it.

Also called hosted hypervisors.

It installs a guest OS by pretending it is a machine being booted for the first time, and installing the OS from media, onto a "disk" (that is really an ordinary OS file).


Type 2 video

Quiz
  1. The operating system running on top of either a type 1 or type 2 hypervisor is called
    1. tourist operating system
    2. guest operating system
    3. migrant operating system
    4. Windows
  2. A type 1 hypervisor
    1. is like an OS
    2. runs on a host OS
    3. cannot be used to run Windows
    4. all of the above
  3. Type 2 hypervisors are also called
    1. bare metal hypervisors
    2. hosted hypervisors
    3. binary hypervisors
    4. real hypervisors
Answers

1. b; 2. a; 3. b;

External Links
  1. Hypervisor