Native hypervisor
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- Type-1, native or bare-metal hypervisors These hypervisors run directly on the host's hardware to control the hardware and to manage guest operating systems. For this reason, they are sometimes called bare metal hypervisors.
- Linux's Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) and FreeBSD's bhyve are kernel modules[3] that effectively convert the host operating system to a type-1 hypervisor
- Type-2 or hosted hypervisors
- These hypervisors run on a conventional operating system just as other computer programs do. Type-2 hypervisors abstract guest operating systems from the host operating system. VMware Workstation
VMware Player, VirtualBox and QEMU are examples of type-2 hypervisors. w:Hypervisor
