The running architecture of the virtual machine
1. Sojourn architecture (test environment, test environment)
a) The virtual machine is installed on the operating system as application software
b) Multiple operating systems can be installed on this application software
c) The system directly installed on the hardware is the host
2. Native architecture (production environment)
a) The virtual machine software is directly installed on the computer hardware
b) The virtual machine itself is an operating system
c) Multiple operating systems can run simultaneously in this virtual machine
3. Virtual machine products
Vmware
- VMware Workstation (Host Architecture)
- VMware vSphere (native architecture)
Microsoft
- Hyper-V (Sojourn Architecture)