HYPERVISOR MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE AND

INFRASTRUCTURE REQUIREMENTS FOR

VIRTUALIZATION
CLOUD COMPUTING PRESENTATION

Presented by:
Hemil Parikh
0812CS131045

HYPERVISOR MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE

Ahypervisoralso known asvirtual machine monitor(VMM) is a piece
of computer software, firmware or hardware that creates and runsvirtual
machines. A computer on which a hypervisor runs one or more virtual
machines is called ahost machine, and each virtual machine is called
aguest machine. The hypervisor presents the guest operating systems
with avirtual operating platformand manages the execution of the guest
operating systems. Multiple instances of a variety of operating systems
may share the virtualized hardware resources: for
example,Linux,Windows, andOS Xinstances can all run on a single
physicalx86machine. This contrasts withoperating-system-level
virtualization, where all instances (usually calledcontainers) must share a
single kernel, though the guest operating systems can differ inuser space,
such as differentLinux distributionswith the same kernel.

TYPES OF VIRTUALIZATION HYPERVISOR

Bare metal / Native Hypervisor (Type 1 VM)- A hypervisor

running on bare metal is a Type 1 VM. The operating system loaded into a
virtual machine is referred to as the guest operating system. Type 1 VMs
have no host operating system because they are installed on a bare
system. An operating system running on a Type 1 VM is a full
virtualization because they are installed on a bare system. An operating
system running on a Type 1 VM is a full virtualization because it is
complete simulation of the hardware that it is running on. Examples of
Type 1 VM are LynxSecure, RTS Hypervisor, Oracle VM and Sun xVM
Server.

TYPES OF VIRTUALIZATION HYPERVISOR

Embedded / Host Hypervisor (Type 2 VM)- The software

applications that are run within a conventional operating system

environment considering the hypervisor layer being a distinct software
layer. The guest operating systems thus run at the third level above the
hardware. Some hypervisors are installed over an operating system and
are referred to as Type 2 VM. Examples of Type 2 Virtual Machine Monitors
are containers Microsoft Hyper V, Parallels Desktop for Mac, VMWare
Fusion, Windows Virtual PC.

ADVANTAGES OF HYPERVISOR
Any processor with a MMU can be used to implement a virtualization
solution and some of the common rich operating systems have been
ported to run on top of them.
There is also no requirement for additional hardware to implement a
hypervisor.
Security sensitive applications can be ported to run in a secure
environment running on top of the hypervisor, but outside of the view of
the rich operating environment.
The hypervisor can provide communications mechanisms which can be
used to allow software virtual machines to communicate.

DISADVANTAGES OF HYPERVISOR
The isolation provided by virtualization technology is restricted to the
processor implementing the hypervisor.