A hypervisor that runs directly on top of hardware (as opposed to on an OS) is known as:

A hypervisor that runs directly on top of hardware (as opposed to on an OS) is known as:

• Side saddle
• Hosted
• Bare metal
• Type 2 

 

EXPLANATION

A bare-metal (also known as native or type-1) hypervisor runs directly on the host's hardware to control the hardware and to manage guest operating systems. For this reason, they are sometimes called bare-metal hypervisors.
A guest operating system runs as a process on the host.