A workstation administrator needs to run a legacy Linux virtual machine alongside Windows 11 on a company-issued laptop. The administrator does not want to alter the current boot configuration and prefers a solution that simply installs like any other desktop application, relying on the existing Windows device drivers for hardware access. Which hypervisor type best fits these requirements?
A type 2 hypervisor (also called a hosted hypervisor) is installed on top of an existing operating system and runs as a standard application. Because it relies on the host OS for device drivers and hardware access, it can be added to a user's workstation without changing the underlying boot process. Type 1 hypervisors run directly on hardware (bare-metal) and replace the host OS, containers share the host OS kernel rather than virtualizing hardware, and a VDI client merely connects to remote desktops instead of hosting VMs locally. Therefore, the hosted model described in the scenario matches a type 2 hypervisor.
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