1. A method comprising: acquiring, by a ring 0 driver executing on a node, physical memory from a guest operating system executing on a central processing unit (CPU) of the node, the CPU coupled to a memory and to a plurality of hardware resources; suspending, by the ring 0 driver executing on the node, the guest operating system and the hardware resources to a first state, the ring 0 driver, residing in the guest operating system, having a highest privilege level of the guest operating system; capturing and saving states of the hardware resources by the ring 0 driver executing on the node; loading, by the ring 0 driver executing on the node, binary executables for a virtualization layer into the acquired physical memory; and bootstrapping, by the ring 0 driver executing on the node, the virtualization layer to create a virtual machine with an initial state that corresponds to a state of the node executing the guest operating system prior to deployment of the virtualization layer, including the captured states of the hardware resources.