Virtualization Technologies
The virtualization technologies used to deploy your applications will greatly depend on the use case of your environment. For industry-standard x86 systems, the two most common virtualization technologies are hosted virtualization and bare-metal virtualization. In this section, we will discuss the differences between these two technologies.
Hosted Virtualization
Hosted virtualization was the first x86 virtualization technology widely available to the public to virtualize an x86 PC or server and its available hardware. This type of virtualization is known as a type 2 or hosted hypervisor because it runs on top of the Windows or Linux host operating system. As shown in Figure 2-1, the hosted hypervisor allows you to ...
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