Virtualization Concepts

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Virtualization Platforms

  • Red Hat Virtualization
  • VMware vSphere
  • Microsof Hyper-V

Hypervisor

The entity that controls virtualization is referred to as hypervisor. The virtual machines are known as "guests" or "guest operating systems".

Hypervisors: KVM, Xen, VMware ESX.

Host Operating System

The host operating system (or the host OS) is the operating system of the physical computer on which the hypervisor is installed.

Guest Operating System

The guest operating system (or the guest OS) is the operating system that is running inside the virtual machine.

Virtual Machine