FC0-U71 Infrastructure Practice Question
A technician is setting up a virtual machine on a laptop running Windows 10. The technician installs VirtualBox and creates a Linux VM. Which type of hypervisor is VirtualBox?
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Why each option matters
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Type 2 hypervisor
VirtualBox is a Type 2 hypervisor because it runs on top of a host operating system (Windows 10). Type 1 hypervisors run directly on hardware without an underlying OS.
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Bare-metal hypervisor
Why it's wrong here
Bare-metal is another term for Type 1.
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Type 2 hypervisor
Why this is correct
Type 2 runs on top of a host OS.
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Type 1 hypervisor
Why it's wrong here
Type 1 runs directly on hardware, not on an OS.
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Container
Why it's wrong here
Containers are not hypervisors.
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