Overview of Virtualization Technologies
Virtualization has been around for quite a while now; however, its mass appeal has only been realized with the extensive improvements that have appeared in the last few years. In virtualization’s early days, you had to purchase very expensive hardware; now, due to its commoditization, you can use commodity PC servers and download free virtualization software to get started.
A number of different virtualization technologies are available in the market today, including the following:
Full software virtualization
Hardware-assisted software virtualization or Hardware Virtual Machine (HVM)
Paravirtualization ...
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