WIWindows Internals
LevelsExploreSearchGlossaryLabs
All levels

Level 9

Virtualization & the hypervisor

How Hyper-V virtualizes the hardware beneath the kernel itself, and how VBS/HVCI uses that same boundary for isolation.

  1. 1Virtualization
  2. 2Hyper-V & partitions
  3. 3VBS, HVCI & isolation
L8 The kernel: scheduling, interrupts & synchronizationL10 Boot, HAL & hardware
  1. User Mode

    L0Applications, the loader & the Win32 environment
  2. L1System support processes & services
  3. L2Security & authentication
  4. Kernel Mode — the Executive

    L3IPC & component boundaries
  5. L4The Executive: objects, processes & memory
  6. L5I/O, storage & the cache manager
  7. L6Networking
  8. L7Configuration & the registry
  9. Kernel Mode — the kernel

    L8The kernel: scheduling, interrupts & synchronization
  10. Virtualization

    L9Virtualization & the hypervisor
  11. Boot, HAL & hardware

    L10Boot, HAL & hardware