Introduction - If you have any usage issues, please Google them yourself
Full virtualization
Runs on bare metal
Referred to as ‘Type-1 Hypervisor’
ESX is the OS (and of course the VMM)
ESX handles privileged executions from Guest kernels
Emulates hardware when appropriate
Uses ‘Trap and Emulate’ and ‘Binary Translation’
Guest OS run as if it were business as usual
Except they really run in user mode (including their kernels)