What are the Characteristics of Virtualized Environment?
- In a virtualized environment there are three major components: guest, host, and virtualization layer.
- The guest represents the system component that interacts with the virtualization layer rather than with the host, as would normally happen.
- The host represents the original environment where the guest is supposed to be managed.
- The virtualization layer is responsible for recreating the same or a different environment where the guest will operate
- in the case of hardware virtualization, the guest is represented by a system image Compromising an operating system & installed application
- These are installed on top of Virtual hardware that is controlled & managed by the Virtualization layer also called Virtual machine mangager