Whats the difference between "bare-metal" hypervisor and full virtualization ?

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Published on 2010-04-06T15:14:37Z Indexed on 2010/04/06 15:23 UTC
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I am presenting to my class on virtualization.

While researching, I am confused between a bare metal hypervisor an full virtualization mode with binary translation.

Could someone please explain that ?

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