Introduction to Hypervisor
The hypervisor is a layer of software that runs above the physical hardware and below one or more operating systems. The hypervisor's main purpose is to provide isolated execution environments called partitions. The hypervisor provides each partition with the partition's own set of hardware resources (for example, memory, devices, and CPU cycles). The hypervisor must control and arbitrate access to the underlying hardware.
The hypervisor is a single binary that contains several components (for example, scheduler, partition management, and virtual processor management).
The hypervisor must run in a 64-bit environment.
The following sections describe the hypervisor and how it is used:
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