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Hypervisor: a Hypervisor is a very low-level,very lean and efficient(精简和高效) platform code layer that enables multiple operating system to run on host computer at the same time。
——是物理机器资源的基本抽象(I/O资源在VMware中是Hypervisor处理的,而在Xen中就不是)
——允许资源在虚拟机之间无破坏的分配(或重新分配)
virtuallization server:a virtuallization server includes a hypervisor function but also includes additional functionality:
——I/O resource/traffic management(Xen)
——server configuration
——access control
——security management