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Use Case Comparison of Type-1 vs. Type-2 Client Hypervisors

VMWare View is a powerful solution for VDI, however when it comes to offline operation its solution is a ‘Type 2 Hypervisor’. In simple terms, this means that the base OS of the machine (e.g. Windows) runs as normal, but the virtual machine that the company provides to the end user runs on top of that OS.

NxTop uses a ‘Type 1 Hypervisor’ meaning that there is no Base OS to worry about. A very thin layer sits between the Virtual OS (the Guest) and the hardware itself making sure that the greatest proportion of the resources are available to run the guest OS rather than being taken by the large OS normally seen with Type 2 Hypervisor implementations.

Both models are valid for particular purposes and the sections in this document analyse some of these. MarXtar provides a short conclusion. Both VMWare and NxTop have specific technical features that are not mentioned on this document so that it is kept brief and focus is on the main use cases.

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