SoftWare
HyperVisor (or Virtual Machine Manager(VMM))
Type I. Bare-Metal Hypervisor

subtype
Monolithic (small space: hypervisor)
Microkernel (large space: hypervisor + hyper-v driver)

ex:
VMware ESXi (Monolithic)
Microsoft Hyper-V (Microkernel)
RedHat KVM
Citrix Xen Server
Type II. Hosted Hypervisor
Guest OS
Create on Host OS
Host OS
Use Hypervisor as Host OS
Vendor
KVM
VMware
IaaS Vendor
OpenStack
CloudStack
CloudFoundry
OpenNebula
Eucalyptus
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