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Guest operating system

Definitions:

  A virtual machine that runs an instance of an OS and its applications.
Sources:
NIST SP 800-125

  The operating system component of the execution stack of a Virtual Machine (see below), others being Virtual Hardware, Middleware and Applications.
Sources:
NIST SP 800-125A under Guest Operating System (OS)