

It differs from other virtualization solutions like VMware vSphere and VirtualBox, which are Type 2 hypervisors that run on top of an operating system. Hyper-V is a Type 1 hypervisor, which runs directly on physical hardware.

This means that all virtual machines typically run on virtual hardware-you can define virtual disks, virtual switches, and other virtual devices and add them to virtual machines. Hyper-V performs hardware virtualization.

Windows 10 virtualization is managed by Microsoft’s own hypervisor, called Hyper-V. Virtualization allows the same host to run multiple “guest” operating systems, and easily move virtual machines between hosts. A virtual machine is a packaged operating system that can run on top of a “host” operating system. One of the features included in Windows 10 is the ability to create virtual machines.
