Wednesday, May 23, 2007

Virtual Machine Monitor (Hypervisor)

A hypervisor (virtual machine monitor) is a virtualization platform that allows multiple operating systems to run on a host computer at the same time.

The Wikipedia has a good description: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypervisor

Some examples are:

QEMU: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QEMU
The windows version is in the alpha stage: http://www.h7.dion.ne.jp/~qemu-win/
There is a windows front end: http://www.davereyn.co.uk/software.htm

VMware: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VMware

Microsfot Virtual Server: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Virtual_Server
This package looks like it is limit to work on Windows XP and Windows Server 2003.

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