Tirgul 1 Flashcards
Where is the main memory located?
On a chip in the computer but outside of the CPU
What is kept in the main memory?
Program instruction and process data
Can the hard disk write and read information to and from the main memory?
Yes
Which is faster: accessing the main memory or hard disk?
Main memory
Where are programs stored?
Programs are stored on the disk until they are loaded into memory, then they use the disk as both the source and destination of the information for their processing.
What is a virtual machine?
A virtual machine (VM) is an emulation of computer system.
There can be many VMs on each physical computer system, and each VM may have its own “virtual” resources and operating system, so that it “feels” like working with physical machine
What has more overhead - container or VMs?
VMs
What is a container?
A container is an OS-level virtualization, that is an OS which allows the existence of multiple isolateduser spaceinstances.
What can a program running inside a container see?
It can only see the container’s contents and devices assigned to the container.
Do multiple containers (running on the same machine) share the OS kernel?
Yes
How many operating system run if I’m running 3 VM’s?
How many OSes if I’m running 3 containers?
VMs: 3
Containers: 1 (all the containers share the same OS)