VietMX Staff asked 3 years ago
Emulation is a type of virtualization. Emulation, also known as full virtualization runs the virtual machine OS kernel entirely in software. The hypervisor used in this type is known as Type 2 hypervisor. It is installed on the top of host operating system which is responsible for translating guest OS kernel code to software instructions. The translation is done entirely in software and requires no hardware involvement. Emulation makes it possible to run any non-modified operating system that supports the environment being emulated. The downside of this type of virtualization is an additional system resource overhead that leads to decrease in performance compared to other types of virtualizations.
Examples in this category include VMware Player, VirtualBox, QEMU, Bochs, Parallels, etc.
