A server room runs several guest machines on a hypervisor that is installed directly on the hardware. No desktop operating system sits underneath. Which hypervisor is this?
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Short Explanation
The guests sit on the foundation, not on a finished apartment. A type 1 hypervisor is that foundation on the bare hardware. A type 2 product lives inside a desktop operating system you said is not there, and a container or a public web app is a different kind of tenant.
Full Explanation
A type 1 hypervisor installs on the server hardware and schedules the guest machines itself. The room has no desktop operating system under the guests, so the hypervisor is type 1. A type 2 hypervisor installs as an application on a host operating system such as Windows or a desktop Linux. That host OS is what this design does not have. Containers share the host kernel. They do not each receive a full guest kernel, and they are not this hypervisor. Software as a service is a finished application the vendor runs. It is not the name of an on-premises hypervisor. Exam caveat: a type 1 product still has a management VM or a small console. That console is not a general-purpose desktop under the guests. Operational check: confirm the host boots into the hypervisor and that a guest starts without a Windows or desktop Linux install on the hardware. Look at the host boot screen: it should land in the hypervisor console, and a guest should start from that console without a Windows desktop underneath.