Week 2 Posting - Type 1 vs Type 2

 Prior to the time of hypervisors if a individual or team wanted to run two systems on a single hardware it would need to be dual booted, meaning only one system can run at a time and it would take CPU, GPU, RAM, and the dedicated storage to function. The alternative was to have multiple systems, but this can become costly especially when computers are much more costly. The solution is to get software that acts like the main system is nothing more than a virtualized hardware environment allowing the admin to set the thresholds of how much resources can be grated and “borrowing” from the main system. From the inception of this idea many systems have adapted to function better, in modern type 1 systems it is common to see system storage stored on a an entirely separate set of hardware, being called upon only when it is needed by the client OS. This same technology is now being used as containers in even more specialized fashions.