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- ''Full Virtualization'' - Full virtualization provides support for unmodifed guest operating systems. In this scenario, the hypervisor provides emulation to handle privileged and protected CPU operations made by unmodified guest operating systems. As a result of this emulation the performance levels are lower than those provided by paravirtualization.
- ''Hardware Virtualization'' - Hardware virtualization is a hypervisor based solution that leverages Intel VT and AMD-V CPU virtualization support, using features of these technologies to handle any privileged and protected CPU operations of unmodified guests. The following figure illustrates the hypervisor approach to virtualization: [[Image:hypervisor_diagram.jpg|center|Hypervisor Virtualization Diagram]]
