On Sat, Sep 05, 2015 at 03:40:53PM +0200, Lampshade wrote: > Sorry for newbie question, but I am curious > and this hipervisor is new thing so there is no man pages yet. >
It's not yet in the tree. > I have read general classification of hypervisors on Wikipedia > and there are types: Type-1 and Type-2. > I have also read about KVM on cern.ch's Wiki. > https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/Virtualization/KVM > > What is the type of this hipervisor: Type-1 or Type-2? The hypervisor is built into the OS. So you could say it's partway between the two types. I've never been a fan of those labels because they imply you are either one or the other, and we're neither. > Is this hypervisor more similar to "micro"-hypervisor or to monolithic > hypervisor? > I don't know what those terms mean. > I am interested in short answers, even if they were slightly oversimplified. >