Type 2 Hypervisor

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August 16, 2014 by Joey Benamy Comments are off

Virtualization platform that runs on top of a full operating system, with the hypervisor being a second software layer. The guest operating-systems run at the third level above the hardware (e.g., VMware Workstation and VirtualBox).