During a lunch-and-learn session, IT staff and members participate in virtualization trivia. Which of the following are valid answers about hosts, guests, virtual NICs, and virtual switches? (Select…

While the host does contain virtual switches, virtual NICs are assigned to guests rather than to the host itself - the physical host uses physical NICs to connect to the external network.

A guest virtual machine is configured with one or more virtual NICs, which connect it to a virtual switch running on the hypervisor host. Virtual NICs allow guests to send and receive network traffic without requiring dedicated physical network adapters, as the hypervisor abstracts the underlying physical NIC hardware. Each guest can have multiple virtual NICs assigned to different virtual switches to support network segmentation.

A hypervisor is installed on the physical host, not on a guest; running a hypervisor inside a VM is called nested virtualization, which is a distinct and non-default configuration.

A hypervisor is the software layer installed on the physical host machine, where it takes control of hardware resources to create and manage isolated guest environments. In a Type 1 deployment it runs directly on bare metal; in a Type 2 deployment it runs on top of a host OS - but in both cases, the hypervisor always resides on the host, never on a guest.

Guests do not contain physical NICs - they use virtual NICs provided by the hypervisor layer, which abstracts the physical NIC hardware that resides on the host.