You may want to check on this blog post.. Virtualization Basics http://itechthoughts.wordpress.com/2009/11/10/virtualization-basics/ There you'll see a nice illustration of the Virtualization lanscape.. http://itechthoughts.files.wordpress.com/2009/11/vbasics6.png On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 5:11 AM, 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 -- Karl Arao karlarao.wordpress.com karlarao.tiddlyspot.com -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l