1.6. The Bottom Line

Microsoft's history in virtualization

Microsoft has introduced multiple products for virtualizing the x86 architecture.

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List the three products that Microsoft has released that provide the capability to virtualize the x86 or x64 architecture.

Monolithic versus microkernelized virtualization architectures

Monolithic and microkernelized are the two primary approaches to creating hypervisors. The difference is the amount of code between the virtual machine and the physical hardware on which it is running.

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List the components that exist in the monolithic hypervisor. List the components that exist in the microkernelized hypervisor.

Hardware requirements

Not all systems are capable of running Hyper-V. ...

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