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====== Guest Image ======

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===== Discussion =====

A Guest Image is a [[dido:99_annexes:annex-b-terms-and-definitions:m:machine_image|Machine Image]] prepared to instantiate and operate as a guest system on a virtualization, cloud, or other host-managed platform.

The image includes the operating-system and configuration elements required to interact with the hosting environment, such as boot configuration, device support, network initialization, storage handling, management agents, and platform-specific integration.

A Guest Image may originate from a [[dido:99_annexes:annex-b-terms-and-definitions:b:base_image|Base Image]] and may later receive security hardening, workload capabilities, or provider-specific conversion.

Within Crucible, a Guest Image represents an image state suitable for use as the foundation of a hosted virtual or cloud machine.

===== Definition =====

//[[dido:99_annexes:annex-b-terms-and-definitions:m:machine_image|machine image]] prepared to instantiate and operate as a guest system on a virtualization, cloud, or other host-managed platform//

===== Source =====

Generalized from virtualization, cloud computing, guest-operating-system, and machine-image engineering usage and specialized for the Crucible architecture and operational model.

===== Note =====

A Guest Image identifies the intended hosted execution role of the image. It does not by itself indicate that the image is hardened, compliant, workload-specific, or approved for production use.

A Guest Image may require conversion, metadata, or registration before use on a particular [[dido:99_annexes:annex-b-terms-and-definitions:d:deployment_platform|Deployment Platform]].

===== Example =====

Crucible prepares a [[dido:99_annexes:annex-b-terms-and-definitions:r:rhel]] 9 Machine Image with cloud-compatible boot, networking, storage, and management configuration. The resulting Guest Image can serve as the source for later hardening and capability layers.

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