Virtualization

In today's world, virtual machines (VM) are very common and are useful in many different scenarios. VMs help to create an isolated machine within your physical machine, with an operating system of your choice. There is no requirement of a specific OS from a given set. One of the advantages of a VM is that you can configure the underlying hardware as per your requirements; it can be of any architecture and you can add as many virtual devices as you want. You can create and run multiple virtual machines based on the available physical hardware. Although the physical hardware is shared among multiple VMs, in software and configuration terms, they are completely isolated from each other.

Hypervisors

In the virtualization world, there is an important component called a hypervisor. You can think of it as a hardware traffic monitor and resource allocator. It shares the host hardware's resources among different guest VMs, such as its CPU, memory, and network. Hypervisors help to ensure...