| Subject | English | German |
| comp., MS | guest operating system | Gastbetriebssystem (The operating system running on a virtual machine) |
| comp., MS | guest operating system profile | Gastbetriebssystem-Profil (A library resource containing the most common settings from a Sysprep.inf file, including the computer name and domain or workgroup settings, which can be applied to a virtual machine template) |