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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