Basics of Hardware VirtualizationParallels Server Bare Metal is based on the concept of hardware virtualization . Hardware virtualization has a base layer—a hypervisor. This layer is loaded directly on the bare server and acts as an intermediary between the server hardware and virtual machines. To allocate hardware and resources to virtual machines, Parallels Server Bare Metal virtualizes all hardware on the server. Once virtualized, hardware and resources can be easily assigned to virtual machines. Based on the virtual hardware, a virtual machine runs its own complete copies of an operating system and applications. The following diagram shows the basic architecture of hardware virtualization.
Like OS virtualization, hardware virtualization also provides many benefits the main of which are listed below:
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