Tuesday, August 31, 2010

Hypervisor

Tip - In computing, a hypervisor, also called virtual machine monitor (VMM), allows multiple operating systems to run concurrently on a host computer— a feature called hardware virtualization.

Details - The hypervisor presents the host operating systems with a virtual platform  and monitors the execution of the guest operating systems. In that way, multiple operating systems, including multiple instances of the same operating system, can share hardware resources.

References
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypervisor

Posted by - Aneesh Valeri

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