Type 1 Hypervisor on the desktop
- by Blazemore
I have a powerful home PC, and I've used VirtualBox to run Linux distros in Windows (and vice versa).
I'm interested in trying out a lightweight type 1 hypervisor to run all my operating systems (Windows 7, Debian, Arch) and was looking for suggestions of which to pick and how to implement this.
From what I gather, a type 1 hypervisor is a lightweight OS which simply provides VM management functionality.
Will I get reasonable performance under each guest OS? Can all the guest OSs have access to a shared data drive, or is is best to have a storage server in another guest OS and mount it over the virtual network?
What about gaming, is this feasible, or will I realistically need to run Win7 on bare metal?
I'd appreciate any input.