Tell us something about Hypervisor

For all platforms related to cloud computing, Hypervisor is a term to portray VMM that is virtual machine monitor including firmware factor running, software and hardware on the virtual machine. The host machine is the one having hypervisor with at least one virtual machines.

OpenStack Compute concedes different hypervisors. There are functionalities to pick one among them for a particular reason.

• LXC: Linux Containers get Linux-based VMs
• KVM : (Kernel-based Virtual machine)
• VMware vSphere: VMware-based Linux and Windows using venter server association.
• QEMU: Quick Emulator used for improvement purposes
• UML: User Mode Linux used for improvement purposes
• Hyper-V: Server virtualization with Microsoft’s Hyper-V