Tek Asked:
Does using cockpit-machines with qemu count as a
real hypervisor?

#ChatGPT Says:
As an AI language model, I do not have personal opinions, but I can provide you with the following information.

Cockpit-machines is a web-based management tool for virtual machines (VMs) that simplifies the process of creating and managing VMs on a Linux system. It provides a graphical user interface (GUI) to create and manage VMs, which are launched using the QEMU hypervisor.

QEMU is a full-system emulator that allows you to run virtual machines on top of a host operating system. It is a type-2 hypervisor that uses the host operating system's kernel to provide virtualization services to the guest operating system.

Therefore, using cockpit-machines with QEMU does not count as a real hypervisor. It is a virtualization solution that relies on the host operating system's kernel to provide virtualization services. Real hypervisors are type-1 hypervisors that run directly on the host's hardware, providing a virtualization layer between the hardware and the guest operating system. Examples of real hypervisors include VMware ESXi, Microsoft Hyper-V, and Citrix XenServer.