A technician receives a Windows 11 laptop and must create an isolated environment for testing beta builds of a legacy payroll application. Management specifies that the laptop's existing operating system must remain intact and that all virtual machines should run as ordinary programs inside that OS. Which virtualization solution best meets these requirements?
Install a Type 2 (hosted) hypervisor on the laptop and create the VMs there.
Provision virtual desktops in a remote VDI farm and access them from the laptop.
Deploy the application inside Linux or Windows containers on the laptop.
Replace Windows 11 with a Type 1 bare-metal hypervisor and import the VMs.
Because the virtual machines must run on top of the existing Windows 11 operating system, the technician needs a hosted-or Type 2-hypervisor such as Oracle VirtualBox or VMware Workstation. A Type 1 hypervisor (including Microsoft Hyper-V) would replace or abstract the installed OS and therefore violates the requirement. Containers share the host OS kernel instead of providing full machine virtualization, so they would not allow a different guest operating system if needed. A VDI solution runs desktops in a remote data-center hypervisor and would not execute the VMs locally on the laptop.
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