How two or more guest OS's hosted in a virtual environment handles editing of single resource?

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Published on 2010-04-08T12:52:50Z Indexed on 2010/04/08 13:03 UTC
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I know this sounds very general question.

Consider 2 OS's running using virtualization say operating system level virtualization. How concurrency is handled if both hosted OS using same resource and how this works?

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