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Which resource must a hypervisor make available to the virtual machines?

The correct answer is C. storage. A hypervisor is responsible for abstracting physical hardware and making essential resources available to virtual machines.

Submitted by stefanr· Mar 6, 2026Virtualization

Question

Which resource must a hypervisor make available to the virtual machines?

Options

  • Abandwidth
  • BIP address
  • Cstorage
  • Dsecure access

How the community answered

(25 responses)
  • A
    4% (1)
  • C
    92% (23)
  • D
    4% (1)

Why each option

A hypervisor is responsible for abstracting physical hardware and making essential resources available to virtual machines.

Abandwidth

While the hypervisor manages network interface access, bandwidth itself is a measure of network capacity and is managed by network components rather than being a direct resource provisioned by the hypervisor in the same way as CPU, memory, or storage.

BIP address

IP addresses are assigned to the guest operating systems or virtual network interfaces within the VMs, usually via DHCP or static configuration, and are not a resource directly provisioned by the hypervisor itself.

CstorageCorrect

A hypervisor must make storage available to virtual machines by abstracting physical storage devices and presenting them as virtual disks, allowing each VM to have its own independent storage space for its operating system, applications, and data.

Dsecure access

Secure access is a broad security concept encompassing various mechanisms (e.g., authentication, authorization, encryption) and is not a fundamental hardware resource that the hypervisor directly makes available to VMs.

Concept tested: Hypervisor resource allocation

Source: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/virtualization/hyper-v/hyper-v-concepts

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#hypervisor functions#virtual machine resources

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