What Type of Virtualization Completely Simulates a Real Physical Host?

Full Virtualization.

Full Virtualization completely simulates a real physical host. In full virtualization most operating systems and applications can run within the virtual machine without any change.

A physical host is a real-time server host that is located at specific location and designated to a specific user or a system.

A virtual host is a virtual machine or software which is emulated using a physical computer with various functionalities of a regular host.

When a virtual host have all the features of a physical host then it is called real physical host. Full virtualization is a virtualization method which simulates a real physical host.

Why Full Virtualization is Highly Successful?

Full virtualization is considered as highly successful virtualization. Because:

• Full Virtualization can share a computer system among multiple users.
• Full Virtualization can isolate users from each other.
• Full Virtualization can isolate users from the control program.
• Full Virtualization can emulate new hardware to achieve more productivity, security and reliability.

See Also: Types of Simulation