There are many vendors offering virtualization products deploying Type 2 hypervisor technology, i.e. virtualization applications that must be installed on a Host OS.
Some of these products distributed free under the GNU (public domain) license, or under the "free for non-commercial use" license. Other applications are sold commercially.
For this discussion research at least two (2) of the virtualization products that are based on Type-2 Hypervisor technology. Compare the products and answer the following questions:
- List the main features of each product
- Who would be a typical customer using each of these products?
- Provide a real world example of how and where these product are being used
- Compare relative advantages and disadvantages of each.
- Which of these products would you use for your own home computer? Why?