Hypervisor
Definition: A hypervisor, also called virtual machine manager is program by which we can run multiple operating systems on a single host by sharing the resources of the host. Virtualization is based on hypervisor; we divide the resources of a host to the operating systems running on the host. Types: Hypervisor is of 2 types Vendor specific Openly available Hypervisor is stored in hardware chips and we call its APIS to create virtualization layers. Every cloud solution which is offered whether it is open source or vendor specific it is built on these APIS.