#Hypervisor Hypervisor ![[hypervisor-0.png]] ## References [Hypervisor - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypervisor) ## Topics [What are hypervisors? - IBM](https://www.ibm.com/topics/hypervisors) ## Vendor Products ### Type-1 (bare-metal) [Citrix Hypervisor](https://www.citrix.com/products/citrix-hypervisor/) ###### [KVM](https://www.linux-kvm.org) [Microsoft Hyper-V Server](https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/evaluate-hyper-v-server-2019) [Openstack](https://www.openstack.org) [oVirt](https://www.ovirt.org) - [[KVM]] management ###### [Proxmox VE](https://proxmox.com/en/proxmox-ve) - [[KVM]], [[LXC]], [[QEMU]] management [Xen Project](https://xenproject.org) [Virt-manager](https://virt-manager.org) - [[KVM]], [[LXC]], [[QEMU]], [[Xen]] management [VMware vSphere](https://www.vmware.com/products/vsphere-hypervisor.html) [XCP-ng](https://xcp-ng.org) - [[Xen]] management ### Type-2 (hosted) ###### [Docker Engine](https://www.docker.com/products/container-runtime/) ¹ ###### [LXC](https://linuxcontainers.org) ² ###### [LXD](https://linuxcontainers.org) ² - [[LXC]] hypervisor [Microsoft Hyper-V for Windows Desktop](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/virtualization/hyper-v-on-windows/quick-start/enable-hyper-v) [Microsoft Hyper-V for Windows Server](https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server) [Oracle VirtualBox](https://www.virtualbox.org) ###### [QEMU](https://www.qemu.org) [VMware Fusion](https://www.vmware.com/products/fusion.html) - MacOS [VMware Workstation Player](https://www.vmware.com/products/workstation-player.html) - Linux, Windows ¹ - application container virtualisation requiring host-[[OS]] support, strictly speaking not a type-2 hypervisor ² - system container virtualisation requiring host-[[OS]]-kernel support, strictly speaking not a type-2 hypervisor ![[buy-me-a-coffee#coffee]]