What components are required to run a virtual machine?
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Correct answer: a hypervisor and physical server hardware.
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To run a virtual machine (VM), you fundamentally need a hypervisor and physical server hardware. The hypervisor is the software layer that creates and runs VMs, abstracting the underlying hardware. The physical server hardware provides the actual CPU, memory, storage, and network resources that the hypervisor allocates to the VMs. A Type 1 hypervisor (bare-metal) runs directly on the physical hardware, while a Type 2 hypervisor (hosted) runs on top of a host operating system. Both types require physical hardware to function. Therefore, "a Type 1 hypervisor and a host operating system" is incorrect because a Type 1 hypervisor does not require a host OS. "Only a Type 1 hypervisor" and "only a Type 2 hypervisor" are incorrect because neither can operate without physical hardware.
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