Virtualization Solutions Flashcards
VMWare Fusion
Type 2 Virtualization Supervisor. Used to Run Guest OS’s on an Apple Computer. A type-2 hypervisor requires an underlying operating system and does not have direct access to the host system’s hardware
VMWare Workstation Pro
Type 2 Hypervisor for Windows’s PC’s. A type-2 hypervisor requires an underlying operating system and does not have direct access to the host system’s hardware
Hyper-V
Type 1 Hypervisor that is included with Windows 10 pro. A type-1 hypervisor has direct communication with the system’s physical hardware
ESXi
Server hypervisor from VMWare. Type-1 hypervisor that does not require an underlying operating system and has direct access to the host system hardware
What type of software is used to run virtual machines?
A hypervisor is a piece of software that is able to manage the hosting of guest virtual machines
Oracle VM VirtualBox
A free open-source type-2 hypervisor
KVM
An open-source Linux-based type-2 hypervisor that is used with most Linux operating systems including Ubuntu, Debian, and SUSE
Oracle VM Server
Oracle VM Server is an open-source type-1 hypervisor that uses Xen technology
Modern guest virtual machine disk images created with Microsoft Hyper-V have what file extension?
vhdx