Hypervisor Physical Hardware Management

The hypervisor implements functions that manage aspects of the underlying physical hardware. For more information about these functions, see Hardware Management Functions. The hypervisor does not manage or control all hardware in a computer. Rather, the hypervisor manages a small subset of core hardware facilities--just enough to enforce isolation guarantees. In some cases, the hypervisor delegates hardware management responsibilities to the root partition.

The following sections describe the hypervisor's implementation of physical hardware management:

Types of Hardware for Management

Obtaining Hardware Information

Hardware Management Data Types

 

 

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