Type 2 hypervisor
In a type 2 hypervisor deployment model, the hypervisor application is installed on top of a host operating system rather than on the hardware components directly. Examples of host operating systems include Microsoft Windows, the Apple macOS, and various flavors of Linux. The hypervisor does not have direct access to the hardware resources on the local system, as it would in the type 1 deployment model. Instead, the hypervisor in a type 2 deployment interfaces with the host operating system to access whatever resources are available. The host operating system usually requires a certain amount of resources, such as CPU and RAM utilization, in order to function optimally, and the remainder is then provided to the type 2 hypervisor ...
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