bhyve, type 1 or 2

[garegin]

Is bhyve a hosted or native hypervisor?
I think this link is mistaken.

 

[SirDice]

There's no clear distinction between type 1 and type 2.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypervisor#Classification

 

[garegin]

yeah, but if Hyper-V and KVM are considered layer 1, than bhyve should be too.

 

[SirDice]

yeah, but if Hyper-V and KVM are considered layer 1, than bhyve should be too.

I would consider VMWare ESXi a type 1 because it runs on bare metal. One can argue that a kernel module also runs on bare metal but a kernel without the rest of the operating system can't do much. Making it more a type 2. As I said, there's no clear distinction.