1. A virtual machine monitor of a computer platform, comprising: a service virtual machine created by the virtual machine monitor partitioning an underlying hardware machine to support execution of a plurality of overlying guest operating systems, the plurality of guest operating systems comprising a guest operating system complying with a non-native guest system architecture different from a host system architecture with which the hardware machine complies, wherein, the service virtual machine comprises a translation layer to translate instructions from the guest operating system complying with the non-native guest system architecture into instructions complying with the host system architecture.