9.3. VMware
VMware provides a Mac OS X native virtualization client, dubbed Fusion. VMware Fusion is a type 2 hypervisor, meaning that it runs on top of an existing operating system (OS X) as an application. Furthermore, the application currently requires an active user session, which definitely has implications when deploying in a server environment. In such a case, a type 1 hypervisor, or bare metal hypervisor, is typically desirable in a server environment, allowing a system's virtualized operating systems to operate independently of each other. Unfortunately, at the time of this writing there are no true type 1 hypervisor's available for OS X. That said, VMware Fusion does have support for hosting both Mac OS X 10.5 or 10.6 server environments. ...
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