Virtualization

What are the advantages and disadvantages of bare-metal hypervisor over a hosted hypervisor?

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Source: bregman-arie/devops-exercises by Arie Bregman

Answer

Due to having its own drivers and a direct access to hardware components, a baremetal hypervisor will often have better performances along with stability and scalability.

On the other hand, there will probably be some limitation regarding loading (any) drivers so a hosted hypervisor will usually benefit from having a better hardware compatibility.