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- A hypervisor, also called a virtual machine manager, is a program that allows multiple operating systems to share a single hardware host. Each operating system appears to have the host's processor, memory, and other resources all to itself. However, the hypervisor is actually controlling the host processor and resources, allocating what is needed to each operating system in turn.

Learn about bare metal, native, embedded and host hypervisors.

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To explore how hypervisors are used in the enterprise, here is an additional resource:

Microsoft Hyper-V Guide

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14 Aug 2008

Read more about hypervisor:

-	IBM's Research Hypervisor is used to test virtualization features in new hardware architectures.
-	"Xen and the Art of Virtualization" is a white paper about the Xen hypervisor.
-	Microsoft says that Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V is the next-generation hypervisor-based server virtualization technology.
-	Virtualization and the hypervisor: Techtarget Roundup

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