What is the difference between Type 1 and Type 2 hypervisors?
the_cyberguy Answered question 21/07/2022
A hypervisor is a software layer that coordinates the VMs in a platform. Moreover, it is the middleware between the VMs and the physical hardware. The hypervisor protects interference of the VMs within the given system.
There are two main types of hypervisors:
- Type 1 hypervisors: These are hypervisors sometimes known as “bare-metal”. Type 1 hypervisors interact with the underlying hardware resources, such as CPU, memory, and disks. It replaces the need of traditional operating systems (OS) role in computing paradigms. These hypervisors have their own pros and cons that must taken into consideration. The main pros include efficiency and the cons can be its requirement for separate management.
- Type 2 hypervisors: Type 2, as opposed to Type 1, is an application that runs on existing software or OS. Some pros of Type 2 include easy and quick access, whereas the cons of this type may include performance issues due to third party OS involvement.
the_cyberguy Answered question 21/07/2022