Which of the following BEST describes the difference between a container and a VM?

Containers use OS-level virtualization via kernel namespaces and cgroups, sharing the host kernel and system libraries, which makes them lightweight and fast to start. VMs use hardware-level virtualization through a hypervisor, with each VM running a complete guest OS including its own kernel and libraries, providing stronger isolation at the cost of greater resource consumption.

Containers are not larger than VMs - containers are significantly smaller because they omit the guest OS, whereas VM disk images bundle an entire operating system.

This reverses the correct architecture - it is containers that share the host OS kernel and libraries, not VMs; each VM maintains its own isolated kernel.

While VMs do generally have a larger resource footprint, this statement alone does not describe the architectural difference that defines containers versus VMs.