COMPUTER NETWORKS AND COMMUNICATIONS
NETWORK SECURITY AND CYBERSECURITY
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An external system to handle the processes and hardware, such as memory, disk, and CPU, from other containers.
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The operating system that is located on the physical machine.
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Operating system that is included internally on the machine.
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Virtualization platform developed by Microsoft for its servers and desktops.
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Detailed explanation-1: -A host OS is a software that is installed on a computer and allows it to interface with the hardware. It is capable of running a type 2 hypervisor. In other terms, type 2 hypervisors execute on the host OS. Host OS may also use container-based virtualization.
Detailed explanation-2: -A host OS is the software installed on a computer that interacts with the underlying hardware and is usually used to describe an operating system used in a virtualized server to differentiate it from the guest operating system.
Detailed explanation-3: -A host operating system is the primary operating system (OS) installed on a computer system’s hard drive.
Detailed explanation-4: -What is a physical server? A physical server refers to a hardware server with the motherboard, CPU, memory and IO-controllers. It’s considered a bare-metal server because its hardware is used directly by an OS instead of a virtualization platform. A physical server is used to run a single instance of an OS.
Detailed explanation-5: -A guest operating system is the operating system installed on either a virtual machine (VM) or partitioned disk. It is usually different from the host operating system.