QuestionQ98

Application Security and Cloud Computing

Nicolas, a computer science student, decides to create a guest OS on his laptop for various lab operations. He uses a virtualization approach in which the guest OS is unaware that it runs in a virtualized environment. The virtual machine manager (VMM) directly interacts with the computer hardware, translates commands into binary instructions, and passes them to the host OS.

Which virtualization approach has Nicolas adopted in this scenario?

  • A Hardware-assisted virtualization
  • B Full virtualization
  • C Hybrid virtualization
  • D OS-assisted virtualization
Explanation

Full virtualization presents a complete virtual hardware environment to an unmodified guest operating system, so the guest does not know it is virtualized. The VMM handles privileged operations and can use binary translation to execute guest instructions safely through the host system.

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