When a Xen based guest VM makes a request for a hardware resource, such as reading from a disk, where is the request sent to?
A) It is sent directly to the hardware on the host machine.
B) It is sent to the Domain 0 guest.
C) It is sent to the host operating system, which then handles the request.
D) It is queued into the guest VM's I/O page table.

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Quizplus · Accepted Answer

The request is sent to the Domain 0 guest, which is a privileged domain in Xen responsible for managing the hardware and forwarding requests from other guest VMs to the actual hardware.

When a Xen Based Guest VM Makes a Request for a Hardware