Not exactly. Virtualization is a layer between your guest operating system and hardware. With Oracle Virtual Sever and VMware ESX, you install the hypervisor in the bare matel hardware and create guest virtual machines on it. -Gopal On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 4:11 PM, dd yakkali <dd.yakkali@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I am new to this virtualization world. I want to get more information about > this. > > I always thought that Virtualization software needs a base OS to run on. > Once you have the virtualization software installed on a host OS, you can > create any virtual machine/OS using the virtualization software. > > Am I correct in stating this? > > Thanks > Deen >