Introduction to Virtualization

We usually refer mainly refers virtualization platform virtualization technology, by using a control program (Control Program, also known as Virtual Machine Monitor or Hypervisor), hide the actual physical characteristics of a particular computing platform to provide users with an abstract, unified to simulate the computing environment (called a virtual machine). Operating system running in a virtual machine is called a guest operating system (Guest OS), running virtual machine monitor operating system is called the host operating system (Host OS), of course, certain virtual machines can monitor directly from the operating system It runs on hardware (such as a VMWARE ESX product). Real system running virtual machines we call the host system.