A client-side hypervisor is a virtual machine monitor (VMM) that resides in and virtualizes a user's computer (see client virtualization). Type 1 hypervisors are the computer's master control program.

The Wikipedia offers the following, rather minimalist, definition: "A hypervisor is software which runs on a hardware machine and manages one or more operating systems." What does this mean to me?

Virtualization Review editor Keith Ward touched on part of this topic in a post about KVM virtualization in regards to Red Hat. I'm convinced there's no formal standards-based definition of Type 1 and ...

What is VirtIO? How BlackBerry’s QNX Hypervisor manages multiple operating systems in an automotive environment. Software-defined vehicles (SDVs) typically use a hypervisor-based software ...

Decades ago, OS virtualization was built into various Unix operating systems, and it migrated into the Linux world in the mid-2000s. Microsoft also built in containers in Windows Server 2016.