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Which statement correctly distinguishes a container from a traditional Virtual Machine (V

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A container packages only an application and its dependencies, sharing the host operating systems kernel rather than including a full separate operating system of its own, which makes containers significantly more lightweight, resource-efficient, and faster to start compared to a traditional VM. A VM, by contrast, includes a complete guest operating system running on top of a hypervisor, providing stronger isolation but at the cost of greater resource overhead and slower startup times.

A A container includes a full copy of a guest operating system along with the application, while a VM shares the host operating system's kernel, making VMs more lightweight than containers

B Containers require a dedicated hypervisor to run, while VMs run directly on the host OS without any virtualization layer

C Both containers and VMs always require exactly the same amount of storage and memory overhead

D A VM can only run a single application at a time, while a container can run multiple independent operating systems simultaneously

E A container is more lightweight and faster to start than a VM, which includes a full guest operating system

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