Virtualization of which hardware component is facilitated by CPUs supporting nested page table extensions, such as Intel Extended Page Table (EPT) or AMD Rapid Virtualization Indexing (RVI)?

The correct answer is A. Memory. Nested page table extensions, such as Intel Extended Page Table (EPT) or AMD Rapid Virtualization Indexing (RVI), are hardware features that facilitate the virtualization of memory. They allow the CPU to perform the translation of guest virtual addresses to host physical…

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Virtualization of which hardware component is facilitated by CPUs supporting nested page table extensions, such as Intel Extended Page Table (EPT) or AMD Rapid Virtualization Indexing (RVI)?

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AMemory
BNetwork Interfaces
CHost Bus Adapters
DHard Disks
EIO Cache

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A
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B
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C
2% (1)
D
10% (4)
E
5% (2)

Explanation

Nested page table extensions, such as Intel Extended Page Table (EPT) or AMD Rapid Virtualization Indexing (RVI), are hardware features that facilitate the virtualization of memory. They allow the CPU to perform the translation of guest virtual addresses to host physical addresses in a single step, without the need for software-managed shadow page tables. This reduces the overhead and complexity of memory management for virtual machines, and improves their performance and isolation. Nested page table extensions do not directly affect the virtualization of other hardware components, such as network interfaces, host bus adapters, hard disks, or IO cache.

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