What is a characteristic of a Type 2 hypervisor?
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Correct answer: It is installed on an operating system and supports other operating systems..
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A Type 2 hypervisor, also known as a hosted hypervisor, runs as an application on top of an existing operating system (the host OS). This host OS provides the necessary hardware drivers and management functions. The hypervisor then allows multiple guest operating systems to run concurrently as virtual machines. This is in contrast to a Type 1 (bare-metal) hypervisor, which runs directly on the hardware without an underlying OS. Therefore, it is not completely independent of the operating system, nor does it eliminate the need for an underlying operating system. While it does manage hardware resources for guest OSs, its primary characteristic is its dependency on a host OS.
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