Hypervisor (VMM)

About

A hypervisor is a piece of computer software, firmware or hardware that

• creates and runs virtual machines.
• VMs run on top of.

It's also known as:

• container driver
• container manager
• Virtual machine manager (VMM)
• wiki/Emulator

The hypervisors run on physical computers, referred to as the host machine whereas VM running on a hypervisor is often called a guest machine

List

• Docker daemon (Cross platform),
• QEMU (for VM creation),
• Hyperkit (macOS),
• Hyper-V (Microsoft Window),
• KVM (Linux),
• Parallels,
• Podman (Alternative to Docker),
• VirtualBox (Microsoft Windows Home),
• VMware Fusion/Workstation (all VMware based hypervisors)
• wiki/Xen
• …

Runtime

They use a runtime to run the container

• containerd,
• CRI-O
• Docker (Cross platform),