Battling furiously to catch up to market leader VMware in the hypervisor market, Microsoft has unveiled what it calls a “feature-complete” version of its Hyper-V product. A hypervisor is a virtualization platform that lets multiple operating systems run on one host computer at the same time. Hyper-V is a Type 1 hypervisor, also called native or bare-metal. This type of hypervisor is software that runs directly on a hardware platform as an operating system control program. Guest operating systems run at the second level above the hardware.
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Microsoft Fashionably Late to Virtualization Party
Posted by: Richard Adhikari March 20, 2008 02:09 PMBattling furiously to catch up to market leader VMware in the hypervisor market, Microsoft has unveiled what it calls a “feature-complete” version of its Hyper-V product. A hypervisor is a virtualization platform that lets multiple operating systems run on one host computer at the same time. Hyper-V is a Type 1 hypervisor, also called native or bare-metal. This type of hypervisor is software that runs directly on a hardware platform as an operating system control program. Guest operating systems run at the second level above the hardware.