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which term describes the layer of software that resides between the virtual operating system and the physical hardware it runs on in a virtualization environment?

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Answer:

hypervisor

Step-by-step explanation:

becauseis a thin layer of software that resides between the virtual operating system(s) and the hardware. The physical host is the actual hardware that the hypervisor software runs on.

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