A system administrator has decided to create several VMs for a company. In which of the following locations would each of the VMs reside?

The host is the physical machine that runs the hypervisor software and provides the underlying CPU, memory, storage, and network resources on which all virtual machines reside. Each VM is instantiated and stored as files on the host, and the host's hypervisor manages resource allocation among all running guests.

VNC (Virtual Network Computing) is a remote desktop sharing protocol used to access machines remotely - it is not a location where VMs reside.

Guest refers to the virtual machines themselves, not the physical location where they are hosted - the guest is what resides on the host, not the other way around.

VPN (Virtual Private Network) is a secure network tunneling technology - it has no role in defining where virtual machines are stored or run.