SK0-003 · Question #189
Which of the following software directly interacts with the hardware and handles hardware resource requests from virtual machines?
The correct answer is D. Hypervisor. The hypervisor is the foundational software layer in virtualization that directly manages the host hardware and allocates resources to virtual machines.
Question
Which of the following software directly interacts with the hardware and handles hardware resource requests from virtual machines?
Options
- AGuest OS
- BVirtual Center
- CVT
- DHypervisor
How the community answered
(22 responses)- B5% (1)
- C5% (1)
- D91% (20)
Why each option
The hypervisor is the foundational software layer in virtualization that directly manages the host hardware and allocates resources to virtual machines.
A Guest OS is the operating system running inside a virtual machine, not the software that manages the hardware.
Virtual Center (or vCenter Server) is management software for a VMware environment, not the hypervisor itself.
VT (Virtualization Technology) refers to hardware-assisted virtualization features in CPUs, not the software that directly interacts with hardware.
A hypervisor is a type of virtualization software that runs directly on the host hardware (bare-metal hypervisor) or on top of a host operating system (hosted hypervisor). It is responsible for creating, running, and managing virtual machines, including arbitrating their access to physical CPU, memory, storage, and network resources.
Concept tested: Hypervisor role in virtualization
Source: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/virtualization/hyper-v/hyper-v-architecture
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