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Cloud Virtualization

Virtualization allows sharing physical resources like applications and servers among multiple organizations by assigning logical names and pointers. It creates virtual machines on top of existing operating systems and hardware using a hypervisor. The hypervisor manages guest virtual machines that are logically isolated from the physical host machine. There are two types of hypervisors: type 1 runs directly on the system hardware and type 2 runs on a conventional operating system.

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Cloud Virtualization

Virtualization allows sharing physical resources like applications and servers among multiple organizations by assigning logical names and pointers. It creates virtual machines on top of existing operating systems and hardware using a hypervisor. The hypervisor manages guest virtual machines that are logically isolated from the physical host machine. There are two types of hypervisors: type 1 runs directly on the system hardware and type 2 runs on a conventional operating system.

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Virtualization is a technique, which allows to share single physical instance of an

application or resource among multiple organizations or tenants (customers). It does so


by assigning a logical name to a physical resource and providing a pointer to that
physical resource on demand.

Virtualization Concept
Creating a virtual machine over existing operating system and hardware is referred as
Hardware Virtualization. Virtual Machines provide an environment that is logically
separated from the underlying hardware.
The machine on which the virtual machine is created is known as host
machine and virtual machine is referred as a guest machine. This virtual machine is
managed by a software or firmware, which is known as hypervisor.

Hypervisor
The hypervisor is a firmware or low-level program that acts as a Virtual Machine
Manager. There are two types of hypervisor:
Type 1 hypervisor executes on bare system. LynxSecure, RTS Hypervisor, Oracle VM,
Sun xVM Server, VirtualLogic VLX are examples of Type 1 hypervisor. The following
diagram shows the Type 1 hypervisor.

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