Unit 3: Virtualization Activity Flashcards
1
Q
Name one of the key drivers for virtualization
A
Easier management through reduced personnel resourcing and maintenance.
2
Q
What is the role of the hypervisor?
A
It allows multiple guest operating systems to share a single host and its hardware.
3
Q
What is the impact of the fact that the management of the guest operating system images is not part of the hypervisor functions?
A
It means that if a Virtual machine is stopped, it is potentially accessible on a file system by third parties if no control are applied. Inspection of this file can circumvent any controls that the guest operating system applies. From the perspective of hypervisor, VMs and their disk images are simply files residing somewhere.
