Q5Cloud Computing
Question
2 marks
State the purpose of a Virtual Machine Monitor (VMM).
Answer
A Virtual Machine Monitor (VMM), or Hypervisor, is the core software engine that mathematically abstracts physical hardware to spawn and isolate multiple virtual machines.
The Virtual Machine Monitor (VMM / Hypervisor) is the absolute foundational software of cloud computing. It sits directly on bare-metal hardware and aggressively slices the physical CPU, RAM, and Disk, mathematically trapping each Guest OS in an isolated sandbox, preventing catastrophic cross-VM interference.