Guest system

Definitions

An operating system that runs within a virtual machine environment managed by a host system.

A secondary computer system or software instance that operates under the control of a hypervisor or virtualization platform.

Examples

The virtual machine allows you to run a guest system within your host operating system.

I installed several security patches on the guest system to ensure it remains isolated from the main network.

Synonyms

Virtual machine Guest OS Virtualized environment Client system Isolated instance

Antonyms

Host system Physical machine Bare metal server Host operating system Underlying hardware