What Is a Bare Metal Hypervisor? – All you Need to Know

A virtual machine monitor, also known as VMM is called a hypervisor. It is nothing but a type of virtualization software that helps in creating new virtual machines (VMs), ensuring that a computer’s hardware is separated from its software. The job of a hypervisor is to translate the request between physical and virtual resources, thereby ensuring the completion of the virtualization task. A hypervisor is called a bare-metal hypervisor when it is installed on the hardware of a physical machine, and it sits between the operating system and the hardware.

In some cases, the bare metal hypervisors are directly embedded into the machine’s core hardware, and it sits with the motherboard BIOS (basic input/output system). This is done in a few systems to enable the operating system on…