An administrator needs to build a new virtualization host. The hypervisor should be able to directly access the server hardware and allow the host to provide maximum performance. Which of the…

A Type 1 hypervisor runs directly on the physical hardware layer, acting as its own lightweight OS and managing hardware resources without an intermediary host operating system. This architecture eliminates the overhead introduced by a general-purpose OS, allowing virtual machines to access CPU, memory, and storage resources with minimal latency. Examples include VMware ESXi, Microsoft Hyper-V Server, and KVM.

A Type 2 hypervisor runs on top of an existing host OS, adding an extra software layer that introduces overhead and reduces performance relative to Type 1.

32-bit versus 64-bit describes the processor architecture and address space, not a hypervisor classification or a factor in direct hardware access.

Hybrid hypervisor is not a standard industry classification for hypervisor types; the recognized categories are Type 1 and Type 2.