Need for Virtualization – Pros and cons of Virtualization – Types of Virtualization –System VM, Process VM, Virtual Machine monitor – Virtual machine properties - Interpretation and binary translation, HLL VM - supervisors – Xen, KVM, VMware, Virtual Box, Hyper-V.
This Presentation provides a detailed insight about Collaborating Using Cloud Services Email Communication over the Cloud - CRM Management – Project Management-Event
Management - Task Management – Calendar - Schedules - Word Processing –
Presentation – Spreadsheet - Databases – Desktop - Social Networks and Groupware.
Security in Clouds: Cloud security challenges – Software as a
Service Security, Common Standards: The Open Cloud Consortium – The Distributed management Task Force – Standards for application Developers – Standards for Messaging – Standards for Security, End user access to cloud computing, Mobile Internet devices and the cloud. Hadoop – MapReduce – Virtual Box — Google App Engine – Programming Environment for Google App Engine.
Virtualization allows multiple operating systems and applications to run on a single hardware device by dividing the resources virtually. It provides isolation, encapsulation, and interposition. There are two types of hypervisors - Type 1 runs directly on hardware and Type 2 runs on an operating system. Virtualization can be applied to servers, desktops, applications, networks, and storage to improve utilization, security, and manageability.
- Virtualization allows multiple operating systems to run concurrently on a single physical machine by presenting each virtual operating system with a virtual hardware environment. A hypervisor manages access to the physical hardware resources and isolates the virtual machines.
- Cloud computing extends virtualization by allowing virtual servers and other resources to be dynamically provisioned on demand from large shared computing infrastructure. This improves flexibility and allows users to pay only for resources that are consumed.
- The hypervisor software manages the virtual machines and allocates physical resources to each one while isolating them from each other. Example hypervisors include VMware, Xen, and KVM. Virtualization improves hardware utilization and makes infrastructure more flexible and cost-effective.
The Open Cloud Consortium (OCC) is a non-profit organization that supports cloud computing standards and develops testbeds for interoperability. It has members from companies, universities, and government agencies. The OCC manages the Open Cloud Testbed, Intercloud Testbed, and Open Science Data Cloud. It also has working groups focused on large data clouds, applications, and cloud services. The Intercloud Testbed aims to address gaps in linking infrastructure and platform services. Benchmarks like Gray Sort and MalStone are used to evaluate large data cloud performance. The Open Cloud Testbed provides shared cloud resources through a "condominium cloud" model. The Open Science Data Cloud hosts scientific data sets for research.
The document discusses cloud computing delivery and deployment models. It defines cloud computing according to the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) as a model for enabling network access to configurable computing resources that can be rapidly provisioned with minimal management effort. There are five essential cloud characteristics: on-demand self-service, broad network access, resource pooling, rapid elasticity, and measured service. The four deployment models are public cloud, private cloud, community cloud, and hybrid cloud. The three main service models are Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Software as a Service (SaaS).
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Virtualization allows multiple virtual machines to run on the same physical machine. It improves resource sharing and utilization. Traditional computers run a single operating system tailored to the hardware, while virtualization allows different guest operating systems to run independently on the same hardware. Virtualization software creates an abstraction layer at different levels - instruction set architecture, hardware, operating system, library, and application levels. Virtual machines at the operating system level have low startup costs and can easily synchronize with the environment, but all virtual machines must use the same or similar guest operating system.
This Presentation provides a detailed insight about Collaborating Using Cloud Services Email Communication over the Cloud - CRM Management – Project Management-Event
Management - Task Management – Calendar - Schedules - Word Processing –
Presentation – Spreadsheet - Databases – Desktop - Social Networks and Groupware.
Security in Clouds: Cloud security challenges – Software as a
Service Security, Common Standards: The Open Cloud Consortium – The Distributed management Task Force – Standards for application Developers – Standards for Messaging – Standards for Security, End user access to cloud computing, Mobile Internet devices and the cloud. Hadoop – MapReduce – Virtual Box — Google App Engine – Programming Environment for Google App Engine.
Virtualization allows multiple operating systems and applications to run on a single hardware device by dividing the resources virtually. It provides isolation, encapsulation, and interposition. There are two types of hypervisors - Type 1 runs directly on hardware and Type 2 runs on an operating system. Virtualization can be applied to servers, desktops, applications, networks, and storage to improve utilization, security, and manageability.
- Virtualization allows multiple operating systems to run concurrently on a single physical machine by presenting each virtual operating system with a virtual hardware environment. A hypervisor manages access to the physical hardware resources and isolates the virtual machines.
- Cloud computing extends virtualization by allowing virtual servers and other resources to be dynamically provisioned on demand from large shared computing infrastructure. This improves flexibility and allows users to pay only for resources that are consumed.
- The hypervisor software manages the virtual machines and allocates physical resources to each one while isolating them from each other. Example hypervisors include VMware, Xen, and KVM. Virtualization improves hardware utilization and makes infrastructure more flexible and cost-effective.
The Open Cloud Consortium (OCC) is a non-profit organization that supports cloud computing standards and develops testbeds for interoperability. It has members from companies, universities, and government agencies. The OCC manages the Open Cloud Testbed, Intercloud Testbed, and Open Science Data Cloud. It also has working groups focused on large data clouds, applications, and cloud services. The Intercloud Testbed aims to address gaps in linking infrastructure and platform services. Benchmarks like Gray Sort and MalStone are used to evaluate large data cloud performance. The Open Cloud Testbed provides shared cloud resources through a "condominium cloud" model. The Open Science Data Cloud hosts scientific data sets for research.
The document discusses cloud computing delivery and deployment models. It defines cloud computing according to the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) as a model for enabling network access to configurable computing resources that can be rapidly provisioned with minimal management effort. There are five essential cloud characteristics: on-demand self-service, broad network access, resource pooling, rapid elasticity, and measured service. The four deployment models are public cloud, private cloud, community cloud, and hybrid cloud. The three main service models are Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Software as a Service (SaaS).
Implementation levels of virtualizationGokulnath S
Virtualization allows multiple virtual machines to run on the same physical machine. It improves resource sharing and utilization. Traditional computers run a single operating system tailored to the hardware, while virtualization allows different guest operating systems to run independently on the same hardware. Virtualization software creates an abstraction layer at different levels - instruction set architecture, hardware, operating system, library, and application levels. Virtual machines at the operating system level have low startup costs and can easily synchronize with the environment, but all virtual machines must use the same or similar guest operating system.
This document provides an overview of CloudSim, an open-source simulation toolkit for modeling and simulating cloud computing environments and applications. It discusses CloudSim's architecture, features, and applications. CloudSim provides a framework for modeling data centers, cloud resources, virtual machines, and cloud services to simulate cloud computing infrastructure and platforms. It has been used by researchers around the world for applications like evaluating resource allocation algorithms, energy-efficient management of data centers, and optimization of cloud computing environments and workflows.
Cloud load balancing distributes workloads and network traffic across computing resources in a cloud environment to improve performance and availability. It routes incoming traffic to multiple servers or other resources while balancing the load. Load balancing in the cloud is typically software-based and offers benefits like scalability, reliability, reduced costs, and flexibility compared to traditional hardware-based load balancing. Common cloud providers like AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure offer multiple load balancing options that vary based on needs and network layers.
The document discusses common standards in cloud computing. It describes organizations like the Open Cloud Consortium and Distributed Management Task Force that develop standards. It then summarizes standards for application developers, messaging, and security including XML, JSON, LAMP, SMTP, OAuth, and SSL/TLS.
This document discusses different aspects of virtualization including CPU, memory, I/O devices, and multi-core processors. It describes how CPU virtualization works by classifying instructions as privileged, control-sensitive, or behavior-sensitive and having a virtual machine monitor mediate access. Memory virtualization uses two-stage address mapping between virtual and physical memory. I/O virtualization manages routing requests between virtual and physical devices using emulation, para-virtualization, or direct access. Virtualizing multi-core processors introduces challenges for programming models, scheduling, and managing heterogeneous resources.
A virtual machine is a software program that behaves like a separate computer and can run applications and programs. It is created within a host computing environment and is known as a guest. There are two types of virtual machines: system virtual machines, also called hardware virtual machines, which allow the sharing of physical machine resources between multiple virtual machines each running its own OS; and process virtual machines, also called application virtual machines, which run as a normal application and support a single process. Virtual machines provide advantages like familiar interfaces, isolation, high availability, and cost reduction, but have disadvantages like indirect hardware access and requiring more RAM and disk capacity. Common examples of virtual machines include XEN, VirtualBox, VMware Workstation, and Citrix
Hypervisors and Virtualization - VMware, Hyper-V, XenServer, and KVMvwchu
With co-presenter Maninder Singh, delivered a presentation about hypervisors and virtualization technology for an independent topic study project for the Operating System Design (EECS 4221) course at York University, Canada in October 2014.
Virtualization, briefly, is the separation of resources or requests for a service from the underlying physical delivery of that service. It is a concept in which access to a single underlying piece of hardware is coordinated so that multiple guest operating systems can share a single piece of hardware, with no guest operating system being aware that it is actually sharing anything at all.
Google App Engine (GAE) is a platform as a service that allows developers to build and host web applications in Google's data centers. GAE applications are sandboxed and automatically scale based on traffic. GAE provides a computing environment with common web technologies, an admin console, scalable infrastructure, and SDK. It compares favorably to AWS with automatic scaling, large data storage, and programming language support, though developers must follow Google's policies and porting applications can be difficult. GAE offers cost savings, performance, and reliability though fees do apply for high resource usage.
Virtualization allows multiple virtual machines to run on a single physical machine. It began in IBM mainframes in 1972 and allowed time-sharing of computing resources. Modern virtualization technologies like VMware and Xen create virtual environments that are essentially identical to the original machine for programs to run in. Virtualization provides benefits like consolidation of servers, high availability, disaster recovery and easier management of computing resources. There are different types of virtualization including server, desktop, application, memory and storage virtualization.
Virtualization allows the creation of virtual versions of servers, desktops, storage, and operating systems that can run simultaneously on a single physical machine. It provides benefits like consolidation of resources and isolation of systems. There are different types of virtualization including hardware, operating system, server, and storage virtualization. A hypervisor manages shared access to physical hardware resources and allows for the operation of multiple guest virtual machines on a single host machine. Machine imaging captures the state of a system to enable portability and deployment of virtual machines. Tools like VMware vSphere provide platforms for implementing virtualization and managing virtual infrastructures at large scale across servers, storage, and networks.
One can Study the key concept of Virtualization, its types, why Virtualization and what are the use cases and Benefits of Virtualization and example of Virtualization.
There are three main virtual machine architectures: hypervisor/VMM architecture, host-based virtualization, and para-virtualization. The hypervisor/VMM architecture inserts a virtualization layer between the hardware and operating system to allow multiple operating systems to run simultaneously on the same physical machine. Host-based virtualization builds a virtualization layer on top of the host operating system, which still manages the hardware. Para-virtualization requires modifying guest operating systems and provides APIs for improved performance over full virtualization. KVM is an example of para-virtualization that uses the existing Linux kernel for scheduling and memory management.
This document provides an overview of distributed computing. It discusses the history and introduction of distributed computing. It describes the working of distributed systems and common types like grid computing, cluster computing and cloud computing. It covers the motivations, goals, characteristics, architectures, security challenges and examples of distributed computing. Advantages include improved performance and fault tolerance, while disadvantages are security issues and lost messages.
There are 5 levels of virtualization implementation:
1. Instruction Set Architecture Level which uses emulation to run inherited code on different hardware.
2. Hardware Abstraction Level which uses a hypervisor to virtualize hardware components and allow multiple users to use the same hardware simultaneously.
3. Operating System Level which creates an isolated container on the physical server that functions like a virtual server.
4. Library Level which uses API hooks to control communication between applications and the system.
5. Application Level which virtualizes only a single application rather than an entire platform.
This document discusses storage virtualization on servers. It begins by defining storage and virtualization, explaining that virtualization allows system resources like storage to be divided into virtual resources. It then discusses server virtualization specifically and how storage can be virtualized on individual servers through volume managers that abstract physical disks into logical volumes. The benefits of storage virtualization on servers are efficient use of resources and integration of multiple storage systems, though it requires software on each server.
This document discusses different virtualization techniques used for cloud computing and data centers. It begins by outlining the needs for virtualization in addressing issues like server underutilization and high power consumption in data centers. It then covers various types of virtualization including full virtualization, paravirtualization, and hardware-assisted virtualization. The document also discusses challenges of virtualizing x86 hardware and solutions like binary translation and using modified guest operating systems to enable paravirtualization. Finally, it mentions how newer CPUs support hardware virtualization to improve the efficiency and security of virtualization.
Virtualization allows multiple operating systems and applications to run on a single server at the same time, improving hardware utilization and flexibility. It reduces costs by consolidating servers and enabling more efficient use of resources. Key benefits of VMware virtualization include easier manageability, fault isolation, reduced costs, and the ability to separate applications.
Virtualization allows multiple operating systems and applications to run on the same hardware at the same time by simulating virtual hardware. There are two main types of virtualization architectures: hosted, where a hypervisor runs on a conventional operating system; and bare-metal, where the hypervisor runs directly on the hardware. Virtualization can be applied to desktops, servers, networks, storage and applications. It provides benefits such as reduced costs, simplified management, and the ability to run multiple systems on one physical machine.
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This document discusses different types of virtualization technologies. It begins by defining virtualization and describing its benefits such as standardization, rationalization, and improved efficiency. It then categorizes various virtualization types including server/platform, desktop, software, system resources, data, and network virtualization. For each type, it provides details on sub-types and discusses opportunities and challenges. The document aims to help consultants, administrators and decision makers understand and evaluate different virtualization options for their organizations.
Virtualization Concepts
This document discusses various types of virtualization including server, storage, network, and application virtualization. It begins with defining virtualization as creating virtual versions of hardware platforms, operating systems, storage devices, and network resources. Server virtualization partitions physical servers into multiple virtual servers. Storage virtualization pools physical storage to appear as a single device. Network virtualization combines network resources into software-defined logical networks. Application virtualization encapsulates programs from the underlying OS. The document then covers the history of virtualization in mainframes and personal computers and dives deeper into specific virtualization types.
Virtualization allows multiple operating systems to run on a single hardware system by abstracting the physical hardware resources. It involves separating resources from the underlying hardware or operating system using a hypervisor. The main types of virtualization are server, desktop, application, network, and storage virtualization. Hypervisors manage the virtual machines and come in two types - native/bare-metal hypervisors that run directly on hardware and hosted hypervisors that run within a traditional operating system. Virtualization provides advantages like efficient hardware utilization, increased availability, easier disaster recovery, and energy savings. Popular virtualization software includes Microsoft Hyper-V, VMware Workstation, VirtualBox, and OpenStack.
Cloud computing allows users to access shared computing resources over the internet. It utilizes virtualization which involves partitioning physical resources and allocating them to virtual machines. This improves resource utilization, enables multi-tenancy, and makes resources scalable and flexible. Virtualization allows multiple operating systems and applications to run concurrently on a single physical server through virtual machines. It provides benefits like hardware independence, migration of virtual machines, and better fault isolation. Security challenges in virtualized cloud environments include issues around scaling, diversity, identity management and sensitive data lifetime.
This document provides an overview of CloudSim, an open-source simulation toolkit for modeling and simulating cloud computing environments and applications. It discusses CloudSim's architecture, features, and applications. CloudSim provides a framework for modeling data centers, cloud resources, virtual machines, and cloud services to simulate cloud computing infrastructure and platforms. It has been used by researchers around the world for applications like evaluating resource allocation algorithms, energy-efficient management of data centers, and optimization of cloud computing environments and workflows.
Cloud load balancing distributes workloads and network traffic across computing resources in a cloud environment to improve performance and availability. It routes incoming traffic to multiple servers or other resources while balancing the load. Load balancing in the cloud is typically software-based and offers benefits like scalability, reliability, reduced costs, and flexibility compared to traditional hardware-based load balancing. Common cloud providers like AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure offer multiple load balancing options that vary based on needs and network layers.
The document discusses common standards in cloud computing. It describes organizations like the Open Cloud Consortium and Distributed Management Task Force that develop standards. It then summarizes standards for application developers, messaging, and security including XML, JSON, LAMP, SMTP, OAuth, and SSL/TLS.
This document discusses different aspects of virtualization including CPU, memory, I/O devices, and multi-core processors. It describes how CPU virtualization works by classifying instructions as privileged, control-sensitive, or behavior-sensitive and having a virtual machine monitor mediate access. Memory virtualization uses two-stage address mapping between virtual and physical memory. I/O virtualization manages routing requests between virtual and physical devices using emulation, para-virtualization, or direct access. Virtualizing multi-core processors introduces challenges for programming models, scheduling, and managing heterogeneous resources.
A virtual machine is a software program that behaves like a separate computer and can run applications and programs. It is created within a host computing environment and is known as a guest. There are two types of virtual machines: system virtual machines, also called hardware virtual machines, which allow the sharing of physical machine resources between multiple virtual machines each running its own OS; and process virtual machines, also called application virtual machines, which run as a normal application and support a single process. Virtual machines provide advantages like familiar interfaces, isolation, high availability, and cost reduction, but have disadvantages like indirect hardware access and requiring more RAM and disk capacity. Common examples of virtual machines include XEN, VirtualBox, VMware Workstation, and Citrix
Hypervisors and Virtualization - VMware, Hyper-V, XenServer, and KVMvwchu
With co-presenter Maninder Singh, delivered a presentation about hypervisors and virtualization technology for an independent topic study project for the Operating System Design (EECS 4221) course at York University, Canada in October 2014.
Virtualization, briefly, is the separation of resources or requests for a service from the underlying physical delivery of that service. It is a concept in which access to a single underlying piece of hardware is coordinated so that multiple guest operating systems can share a single piece of hardware, with no guest operating system being aware that it is actually sharing anything at all.
Google App Engine (GAE) is a platform as a service that allows developers to build and host web applications in Google's data centers. GAE applications are sandboxed and automatically scale based on traffic. GAE provides a computing environment with common web technologies, an admin console, scalable infrastructure, and SDK. It compares favorably to AWS with automatic scaling, large data storage, and programming language support, though developers must follow Google's policies and porting applications can be difficult. GAE offers cost savings, performance, and reliability though fees do apply for high resource usage.
Virtualization allows multiple virtual machines to run on a single physical machine. It began in IBM mainframes in 1972 and allowed time-sharing of computing resources. Modern virtualization technologies like VMware and Xen create virtual environments that are essentially identical to the original machine for programs to run in. Virtualization provides benefits like consolidation of servers, high availability, disaster recovery and easier management of computing resources. There are different types of virtualization including server, desktop, application, memory and storage virtualization.
Virtualization allows the creation of virtual versions of servers, desktops, storage, and operating systems that can run simultaneously on a single physical machine. It provides benefits like consolidation of resources and isolation of systems. There are different types of virtualization including hardware, operating system, server, and storage virtualization. A hypervisor manages shared access to physical hardware resources and allows for the operation of multiple guest virtual machines on a single host machine. Machine imaging captures the state of a system to enable portability and deployment of virtual machines. Tools like VMware vSphere provide platforms for implementing virtualization and managing virtual infrastructures at large scale across servers, storage, and networks.
One can Study the key concept of Virtualization, its types, why Virtualization and what are the use cases and Benefits of Virtualization and example of Virtualization.
There are three main virtual machine architectures: hypervisor/VMM architecture, host-based virtualization, and para-virtualization. The hypervisor/VMM architecture inserts a virtualization layer between the hardware and operating system to allow multiple operating systems to run simultaneously on the same physical machine. Host-based virtualization builds a virtualization layer on top of the host operating system, which still manages the hardware. Para-virtualization requires modifying guest operating systems and provides APIs for improved performance over full virtualization. KVM is an example of para-virtualization that uses the existing Linux kernel for scheduling and memory management.
This document provides an overview of distributed computing. It discusses the history and introduction of distributed computing. It describes the working of distributed systems and common types like grid computing, cluster computing and cloud computing. It covers the motivations, goals, characteristics, architectures, security challenges and examples of distributed computing. Advantages include improved performance and fault tolerance, while disadvantages are security issues and lost messages.
There are 5 levels of virtualization implementation:
1. Instruction Set Architecture Level which uses emulation to run inherited code on different hardware.
2. Hardware Abstraction Level which uses a hypervisor to virtualize hardware components and allow multiple users to use the same hardware simultaneously.
3. Operating System Level which creates an isolated container on the physical server that functions like a virtual server.
4. Library Level which uses API hooks to control communication between applications and the system.
5. Application Level which virtualizes only a single application rather than an entire platform.
This document discusses storage virtualization on servers. It begins by defining storage and virtualization, explaining that virtualization allows system resources like storage to be divided into virtual resources. It then discusses server virtualization specifically and how storage can be virtualized on individual servers through volume managers that abstract physical disks into logical volumes. The benefits of storage virtualization on servers are efficient use of resources and integration of multiple storage systems, though it requires software on each server.
This document discusses different virtualization techniques used for cloud computing and data centers. It begins by outlining the needs for virtualization in addressing issues like server underutilization and high power consumption in data centers. It then covers various types of virtualization including full virtualization, paravirtualization, and hardware-assisted virtualization. The document also discusses challenges of virtualizing x86 hardware and solutions like binary translation and using modified guest operating systems to enable paravirtualization. Finally, it mentions how newer CPUs support hardware virtualization to improve the efficiency and security of virtualization.
Virtualization allows multiple operating systems and applications to run on a single server at the same time, improving hardware utilization and flexibility. It reduces costs by consolidating servers and enabling more efficient use of resources. Key benefits of VMware virtualization include easier manageability, fault isolation, reduced costs, and the ability to separate applications.
Virtualization allows multiple operating systems and applications to run on the same hardware at the same time by simulating virtual hardware. There are two main types of virtualization architectures: hosted, where a hypervisor runs on a conventional operating system; and bare-metal, where the hypervisor runs directly on the hardware. Virtualization can be applied to desktops, servers, networks, storage and applications. It provides benefits such as reduced costs, simplified management, and the ability to run multiple systems on one physical machine.
Cloud computing system models for distributed and cloud computinghrmalik20
System Models for Distributed and Cloud
Computing,Peer-to-peer (P2P) Networks,Computational and Data Grids,Clouds,Advantage of Clouds over Traditional
Distributed Systems,Performance Metrics and Scalability Analysis,System Efficiency,Performance Challenges in Cloud Computing,WHY CLOUD COMPUTING,What is cloud computing and why is it distinctive,CLOUD SERVICE DELIVERY MODELS AND THEIR
PERFORMANCE CHALLENGES,Cloud computing security,What does Cloud Computing Security mean,Cloud Security Landscape,Energy Efficiency of Cloud Computing,How energy-efficient is cloud computing?
This document discusses different types of virtualization technologies. It begins by defining virtualization and describing its benefits such as standardization, rationalization, and improved efficiency. It then categorizes various virtualization types including server/platform, desktop, software, system resources, data, and network virtualization. For each type, it provides details on sub-types and discusses opportunities and challenges. The document aims to help consultants, administrators and decision makers understand and evaluate different virtualization options for their organizations.
Virtualization Concepts
This document discusses various types of virtualization including server, storage, network, and application virtualization. It begins with defining virtualization as creating virtual versions of hardware platforms, operating systems, storage devices, and network resources. Server virtualization partitions physical servers into multiple virtual servers. Storage virtualization pools physical storage to appear as a single device. Network virtualization combines network resources into software-defined logical networks. Application virtualization encapsulates programs from the underlying OS. The document then covers the history of virtualization in mainframes and personal computers and dives deeper into specific virtualization types.
Virtualization allows multiple operating systems to run on a single hardware system by abstracting the physical hardware resources. It involves separating resources from the underlying hardware or operating system using a hypervisor. The main types of virtualization are server, desktop, application, network, and storage virtualization. Hypervisors manage the virtual machines and come in two types - native/bare-metal hypervisors that run directly on hardware and hosted hypervisors that run within a traditional operating system. Virtualization provides advantages like efficient hardware utilization, increased availability, easier disaster recovery, and energy savings. Popular virtualization software includes Microsoft Hyper-V, VMware Workstation, VirtualBox, and OpenStack.
Cloud computing allows users to access shared computing resources over the internet. It utilizes virtualization which involves partitioning physical resources and allocating them to virtual machines. This improves resource utilization, enables multi-tenancy, and makes resources scalable and flexible. Virtualization allows multiple operating systems and applications to run concurrently on a single physical server through virtual machines. It provides benefits like hardware independence, migration of virtual machines, and better fault isolation. Security challenges in virtualized cloud environments include issues around scaling, diversity, identity management and sensitive data lifetime.
IRJET- A Survey on Virtualization and Attacks on Virtual Machine Monitor (VMM)IRJET Journal
This document discusses virtualization and attacks on virtual machine monitors (VMMs). It begins with an introduction to cloud computing and virtualization. Virtualization allows multiple operating systems to run concurrently on a single computer by abstracting physical resources. A VMM or hypervisor manages access to underlying physical resources for virtual machines. There are different types of virtualization including application, desktop, hardware, network, and storage virtualization. The document also discusses the two types of hypervisors - type 1 hypervisors install directly on hardware while type 2 hypervisors run on a host operating system. It concludes by noting that while virtualization improves efficiency, it can also introduce vulnerabilities that attackers may exploit.
Virtualization is a technique that allows sharing of physical resources among multiple customers and organizations. It does this by assigning logical names to physical storage and providing pointers to the physical resources on demand. Virtualization plays a fundamental role in cloud computing by efficiently delivering Infrastructure-as-a-Service solutions. It allows sharing of a single physical instance of a resource like a server, storage, or application among multiple users. This helps reduce costs for cloud providers through server consolidation and more efficient use of hardware resources. Some benefits of virtualization in cloud computing include better hardware utilization, increased availability of resources, easier disaster recovery, and energy savings.
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Virtualization allows multiple operating systems and applications to run on the same machine at the same time by creating virtual versions of hardware resources. It is a key technique used in cloud computing to increase hardware utilization and flexibility while reducing costs. The main types of virtualization are application, network, desktop, storage, server, and data virtualization.
Virtualisation uses hardware and software to create virtual versions of servers, desktops, networks, storage and memory. This allows one physical server to appear as many servers, or one desktop to run multiple operating systems simultaneously. Server virtualisation improves resource utilisation and reduces costs. Popular virtualisation platforms include VMware ESXi and Microsoft Hyper-V. While virtualisation offers advantages like increased flexibility and scalability, it requires new skills and adds some overhead.
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This document discusses virtualization, including its definition, types, history and pros/cons. Virtualization allows one physical machine to run multiple virtual servers, operating systems or applications. This saves on hardware costs and improves management. Types include platform, desktop and application virtualization, as well as cloud computing. While virtualization improves scalability and efficiency, it can also result in lower performance or a single point of failure.
The process of virtualization enables the creation of virtual forms of servers, applications, networks and storage. The four main types of virtualization are network virtualization, storage virtualization, application virtualization and desktop virtualization.
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This document discusses CPU performance when migrating data from a virtual machine to a physical machine in cloud computing. It first provides background on virtual machines and live migration between physical hosts. It then describes the system design, which involves classifying CPU models and allocating resources per virtual machine. The evaluation section outlines experiments conducted on a system with two quad-core CPUs and 8GB RAM. It found that live migration performance depends on network bandwidth and latency, and that virtualization leads to some degradation compared to non-virtualized systems. The conclusion discusses tradeoffs between management overhead and performance that must be considered on a case-by-case basis.
This document discusses distributed computing and virtualization. It begins with an overview of distributed computing and parallel computing architectures. It then defines distributed computing as a method for making multiple computers work together to solve problems. As an example, it describes telephone and cellular networks as classic distributed networks. The document also defines parallel computing as performing tasks across multiple processors to improve speed and efficiency. It then discusses different types of virtualization techniques including hardware, operating system, server, and storage virtualization. Finally, it provides overviews of x86 virtualization, virtualization technology, virtual storage area networks (VSANs), and virtual local area networks (VLANs).
Operating system-level virtualization imposes little overhead as guest programs use the host OS interface without emulation. However, it is not as flexible as other approaches as it can only host the same OS as the host and not different OSes. Some OS virtualizers provide file-level copy-on-write to back up data more efficiently than block-level schemes used by whole system virtualizers. Restrictions are placed on containers to prevent modifying the kernel or accessing certain resources. Virtualization has matured and is used for server consolidation, operational agility through live migration, high availability, and improving responsiveness of IT operations.
This document provides an overview of virtualization and cloud computing technologies. It defines virtualization as using software to allow multiple operating systems to run on a single hardware host. A hypervisor manages shared access to the physical resources. The document outlines the history of virtualization and describes popular virtualization platforms like Hyper-V, VMware vSphere, and cloud services from Amazon Web Services, Google Apps, and Windows Azure. Benefits of cloud computing include reduced costs, increased storage, flexibility, and mobility. Public, private and hybrid cloud models are discussed along with case studies of major cloud providers.
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This document provides an overview of virtualization technology. It discusses how virtualization works through the use of a hypervisor and management software to allocate resources across virtual machines. The benefits of virtualization include server consolidation and increased efficiency. Issues that need to be addressed include performance considerations when consolidating workloads, security risks introduced by added software layers, and ensuring compliance across virtual machines. The document provides guidance on getting started with virtualization, including understanding workloads, building a business case, training staff, and examining policies.
Virtualization allows multiple operating systems and applications to run simultaneously on a single physical machine. It provides benefits such as running different operating systems, easier software installation through virtual appliances, testing and disaster recovery using snapshots, and infrastructure consolidation to reduce hardware costs. Virtualization works by allocating resources like memory, processing power, and storage to virtual machines through a hypervisor. Early virtualization technologies date back to the 1960s but it became widely adopted in the 2000s with advances in hypervisor software.
The document provides an overview of virtualization, including definitions, types of virtualization, and popular hypervisors. It discusses how virtualization addresses issues with underutilized servers in data centers by consolidating workloads. Full virtualization provides a complete hardware simulation but has challenges virtualizing certain architectures like x86. Paravirtualization modifies the guest OS, while hardware-assisted virtualization uses new CPU features to simplify virtualization. Memory, storage, network, and application virtualization are also summarized.
Virtualization uses software to divide the hardware resources of a single computer into multiple virtual machines, each capable of running its own operating system. This allows more efficient use of physical resources and greater flexibility. Key benefits include improved resource utilization, easier management of operating systems and applications, reduced downtime, faster provisioning of resources, and lower costs. Virtualization is a core technology enabling cloud computing.
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2. Virtualization for Cloud:
Need for Virtualization
Pros and cons of Virtualization
Types of Virtualization
System VM
Process VM
Virtual Machine monitor
Virtual Machine Properties
Interpretation and Binary Translation
HLL VM
Supervisors
Xen, KVM, VMware, Virtual Box, Hyper-V.
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Unit -4
3. History of Virtualization
(from “Modern Operating Systems” 4th Edition, p474 by Tanenbaum and Bos)
1960’s, IBM: CP/CMS control program: a virtual machine operating system for the IBM System/360
Model 67
2000, IBM: z-series with 64-bit virtual address spaces and backward compatible with the System/360
1974: Popek and Golberg from UCLA published “Formal Requirements for Virtualizable Third
Generation Architectures” where they listed the conditions a computer architecture should satisfy to
support virtualization efficiently. The popular x86 architecture that originated in the 1970s did not
support these requirements for decades.
1990’s, Stanford researchers, VMware: Researchers developed a new hypervisor and founded
VMware, the biggest virtualization company of today’s. First virtualization solution was is 1999 for x86.
Today many virtualization solutions: Xen from Cambridge, KVM, Hyper-V,
IBM was the first to produce and sell virtualization for the mainframe. But, VMware popularised
virtualization for the masses.
5. 1. Enhanced Performance
Currently, the end user system i.e. PC is sufficiently powerful to fulfill all the basic
computation requirements of the user, with various additional capabilities which are rarely
used by the user. Most of their systems have sufficient resources which can host a virtual
machine manager and can perform a virtual machine with acceptable performance so far.
2. Limited use of Hardware and Software Resources
The limited use of the resources leads to under-utilization of hardware and software
resources. As all the PCs of the user are sufficiently capable to fulfill their regular
computational needs that’s why many of their computers are used often which can be used
24/7 continuously without any interruption. The efficiency of IT infrastructure could be
increase by using these resources after hours for other purposes. This environment is
possible to attain with the help of Virtualization.
Need for Virtualization
6. 3. SHORTAGE OF SPACE
The regular requirement for additional capacity, whether memory storage or compute
power, leads data centers raise rapidly. Companies like Google, Microsoft and Amazon
develop their infrastructure by building data centers as per their needs. Mostly, enterprises
unable to pay to build any other data center to accommodate additional resource capacity.
This heads to the diffusion of a technique which is known as server consolidation.
4. ECO-FRIENDLY INITIATIVES-
At this time, corporations are actively seeking for various methods to minimize their
expenditures on power which is consumed by their systems. Data centers are main power
consumers and maintaining a data center operations needs a continuous power supply as
well as a good amount of energy is needed to keep them cool for well-functioning.
Therefore, server consolidation drops the power consumed and cooling impact by having a
fall in number of servers. Virtualization can provide a sophisticated method of server
consolidation.
Contd……
7. 5. ADMINISTRATIVE COSTS
Furthermore, the rise in demand for capacity surplus, that convert into more servers in a data
center, accountable for a significant increase in administrative costs. Hardware monitoring,
server setup and updates, defective hardware replacement, server resources monitoring, and
backups are included in common system administration tasks. These are personnel-intensive
operations. The administrative costs is increased as per the number of servers. Virtualization
decreases number of required servers for a given workload, hence reduces the cost of
administrative employees.
Contd……
8. 1. More flexible and efficient allocation of resources.
2. Enhance development productivity.
3. It lowers the cost of IT infrastructure.
4. Remote access and rapid scalability.
5. High availability and disaster recovery.
6. Pay peruse of the IT infrastructure on demand.
7. Enables running multiple operating systems.
Benefits of Virtualization
10. 1. GUEST
The guest represents the system component that interacts with the virtualization layer rather than with
the host, as would normally happen. Guests usually consist of one or more virtual disk files, and a VM
definition file. Virtual Machines are centrally managed by a host application that sees and manages each
virtual machine as a different application.
2. HOST
The host represents the original environment where the guest is supposed to be managed. Each guest
runs on the host using shared resources donated to it by the host. The operating system, works as the
host and manages the physical resource management, and the device support.
3. VIRTUALIZATION LAYER
The virtualization layer is responsible for recreating the same or a different environment where the
guest will operate. It is an additional abstraction layer between a network and storage hardware,
computing, and the application running on it. Usually it helps to run a single operating system per
machine which can be very inflexible compared to the usage of virtualization.
Contd……
11. Types of Virtualization:
1. Application Virtualization
2. Network Virtualization
3. Desktop Virtualization
4. Storage Virtualization
5. Server Virtualization
6. Data Virtualization
12. 1. Application Virtualization
Application virtualization helps a user to have remote access of an application from a
server. The server stores all personal information and other characteristics of the
application but can still run on a local workstation through the internet. Example of this
would be a user who needs to run two different versions of the same software.
Technologies that use application virtualization are hosted applications and packaged
applications.
2. Network Virtualization
The ability to run multiple virtual networks with each has a separate control and data plan.
It co-exists together on top of one physical network. It can be managed by individual parties
that potentially confidential to each other.
Network virtualization provides a facility to create and provision virtual networks—logical
switches, routers, firewalls, load balancer, Virtual Private Network (VPN), and workload
security within days or even in weeks.
Contd……
13. 3. Desktop Virtualization
Desktop virtualization allows the users’ OS to be remotely stored on a server in the data
centre. It allows the user to access their desktop virtually, from any location by a different
machine. Users who want specific operating systems other than Windows Server will need
to have a virtual desktop. Main benefits of desktop virtualization are user mobility,
portability, easy management of software installation, updates, and patches.
4. Storage Virtualization
Storage virtualization is an array of servers that are managed by a virtual storage system.
The servers aren’t aware of exactly where their data is stored, and instead function more
like worker bees in a hive. It makes managing storage from multiple sources to be
managed and utilized as a single repository. storage virtualization software maintains
smooth operations, consistent performance and a continuous suite of advanced functions
despite changes, break down and differences in the underlying equipment.
Contd……
14. 5. Server Virtualization
This is a kind of virtualization in which masking of server resources takes place. Here, the central-
server(physical server) is divided into multiple different virtual servers by changing the identity
number, processors. So, each system can operate its own operating systems in isolate manner. Where
each sub-server knows the identity of the central server. It causes an increase in the performance and
reduces the operating cost by the deployment of main server resources into a sub-server resource. It’s
beneficial in virtual migration, reduce energy consumption, reduce infrastructural cost, etc.
6. Data Virtualization
This is the kind of virtualization in which the data is collected from various sources and managed that
at a single place without knowing more about the technical information like how data is collected,
stored & formatted then arranged that data logically so that its virtual view can be accessed by its
interested people and stakeholders, and users through the various cloud services remotely. Many big
giant companies are providing their services like Oracle, IBM, At scale, Cdata, etc.
Contd……
15. A System Virtual Machine (System VM) provides a complete system
platform which supports the execution of a complete operating system
(OS).
In contrast, a Process Virtual Machine (Process VM) is designed to run a
single program, which means that it supports a single process.
System VM & Process VM
16. System Virtual Machine
A System Virtual Machine is also called as Hardware Virtual Machine. It is the software
emulation of a computer system. It mimics the entire computer.
In computing, an emulator is hardware or software that enables one computer system (called the
host) to behave like another computer system (called the guest). An emulator typically enables the
host system to run software or use a peripheral device designed for the guest system.
It is an environment that allows multiple instances of the operating system (virtual machines) to run
on a host system, sharing the physical resources.
System Virtual Machine provides a platform for the execution of a complete operating system. It will
create a number of different isolated identical execution environments in a single computer by
partitioning computer memory to install and execute the different operating systems at the time.
It allows us to install applications in each operating system, run the application in this operating
system as if we work in real work on a real computer. For example, we can install Windows XP/7/8 or
Linux Ubuntu/Kali in Windows 10 operating system with the help of VM.
Examples of System VMs software - VMware, VirtualBox, Windows Virtual PC, Parallels, QEMU,
Citrix Xen
17. A Process Virtual Machine is also called a Language Virtual Machine or an Application
Virtual Machine or Managed Runtime Environment.
Process VM is a software simulation of a computer system. It provides a runtime
environment to execute a single program and supports a single process.
The purpose of a process virtual machine is to provide a platform-independent
programming environment that abstracts the details of the underlying hardware or
operating system and allows a program to execute in the same way on any platform.
Process virtual machines are implemented using an interpreter; for improving performance
these virtual machines will use just-in-time compilers internally.
Examples of Process VMs - JVM (Java Virtual Machine) is used for the Java language
PVM (Parrot Virtual Machine) is used for PERL Language, CLR (Common Language
Runtime) is used for .NET Framework
Process Virtual Machine
18.
19. Virtual Machine Monitor (VMM)
A Virtual Machine Monitor (VMM) is a software program that enables the creation, management and
governance of virtual machines (VM) and manages the operation of a virtualized environment on top
of a physical host machine.
VMM is also known as Virtual Machine Manager and Hypervisor. However, the provided architectural
implementation and services differ by vendor product.
VMM is the primary software behind virtualization environments and implementations. When installed
over a host machine, VMM facilitates the creation of VMs, each with separate operating systems (OS)
and applications. VMM manages the backend operation of these VMs by allocating the necessary
computing, memory, storage and other input/output (I/O) resources.
VMM also provides a centralized interface for managing the entire operation, status and availability of
VMs that are installed over a single host or spread across different and interconnected hosts.
20. Virtual Machine Monitor (VMM / Hypervisor)
A virtual machine monitor (VMM/hypervisor) partitions the resources of computer system into one
or more virtual machines (VMs). Allows several operating systems to run concurrently on a single
hardware platform.
A VM is an execution environment that runs an OS
VM – an isolated environment that appears to be a whole computer, but actually only has access to a
portion of the computer resources
A VMM allows:
Multiple services to share the same platform
Live migration - the movement of a server from one
platform to another
System modification while maintaining backward compatibility with the original
system
Enforces isolation among the systems, thus security
A guest operating system is an OS that runs in a VM under the control of the VMM.
21. VMM Virtualizes the CPU and the Memory
A VMM (also hypervisor)
Traps the privileged instructions executed by a guest OS and enforces the
correctness and safety of the operation
Traps interrupts and dispatches them to the individual guest operating systems
Controls the virtual memory management
Maintains a shadow page table for each guest OS and replicates any modification made
by the guest OS in its own shadow page table. This shadow page table points to the
actual page frame and it is used by the Memory Management Unit (MMU) for dynamic
address translation.
Monitors the system performance and takes corrective actions to avoid performance
degradation. For example, the VMM may swap out a VM to avoid thrashing.
22. Type 1 and 2 Hypervisors
Type 1 Hypervisor Type 2 Hypervisor
Taxonomy of VMMs:
1. Type 1 Hypervisor (bare metal, native): supports multiple virtual machines
and runs directly on the hardware (e.g., VMware ESX , Xen, Denali)
2. Type 2 Hypervisor (hosted) VM - runs under a host operating system (e.g.,
user-mode Linux)
23.
24. Virtual Machine Properties
Being able to use apps and operating systems without the need for hardware presents users
with some advantages over a traditional computer. The benefits of virtual machines include:
1. Compatibility
Virtual machines host their own guest operating systems and applications, using all the
components found in a physical computer (motherboard, VGA card, network card controller,
etc). This allows VMs to be fully compatible with all standard x86 operating systems,
applications and device drivers. You can therefore run all the same software that you would
usually use on a standard x86 computer.
2. Isolation
VMs share the physical resources of a computer, yet remain isolated from one another. This
separation is the core reason why virtual machines create a more secure environment for
running applications when compared to a non-virtual system. If, for example, you’re running
four VMs on a server and one of them crashes, the remaining three will remain unaffected
and will still be operational.
25. Contd……
3. Encapsulation
A virtual machine acts as a single software package that encapsulates a complete set of
hardware resources, an operating system, and all its applications. This makes VMs
incredibly portable and easy to manage. You can move and copy a VM from one location
to another like any other software file, or save it on any storage medium — from storage
area networks (SANs) to a common USB flash drive.
4. Hardware independence
Virtual machines can be configured with virtual components that are completely
independent of the physical components of the underlying hardware. VMs that reside on
the same server can even run different types of operating systems. Hardware
independence allows you to move virtual machines from one x86 computer to another
without needing to make any changes to the device drivers, operating system or
applications.
26. Interpretation in Cloud Computing, In simple terms, the behavior of the hardware is
produced by a software program. Emulation process involves only those hardware
components so that user or virtual machines does not understand the underlying
environment. This process is also termed as interpretation.
Binary Translation is one specific approach to implementing full virtualization that does
not require hardware virtualization features.
It involves examining the executable code of the virtual guest for "unsafe" instructions,
translating these into "safe" equivalents, and then executing the translated code.
VMware is an example of virtualization using binary translation (VMware, n.d.).
Hypervisors can also be distinguished by their relation to the host-operating system.
Interpretation and Binary Translation
27. HLL VM
A static compiler is probably the best solution when performance is paramount, portability is not a great concern, destinations of calls are
known at compile time and programs bind to external symbols before running. Thus, most third generation languages like C and FORTRAN
are implemented this way. However, if the language is object-oriented, binds to external references late, and must run on many
platforms, it may be advantageous to implement a compiler that targets a fictitious high-level language virtual machine (HLL VM)
instead.
In Smith's taxonomy, an HLL VM is a system that provides a process with an execution environment that does not correspond to any
particular hardware platform. The interface offered to the high-level language application process is usually designed to hide differences
between the platforms to which the VM will eventually be ported. For instance, UCSD Pascal p-code and Java bytecode both express virtual
instructions as stack operations that take no register arguments. Gosling, one of the designers of the Java virtual machine, has said that he
based the design of the JVM on the p-code machine. Smalltalk, Self and many other systems have taken a similar approach. A VM may also
provide virtual instructions that support peculiar or challenging features of the language. For instance, a Java virtual machine has
specialized virtual instructions
28. Contd……
This approach has benefits for the users as well. For instance, applications can be
distributed in a platform neutral format. In the case of the Java class libraries or UCSD
Pascal programs, the amount of virtual software far exceeds the size of the VM.
The advantage is that the relatively small amount of effort required to port the VM to a
new platform enables a large body of virtual applications to run on the new platform also.
There are various approaches a HLL VM can take to actually execute a virtual program.
An interpreter fetches, decodes, then emulates each virtual instruction in turn. Hence,
interpreters are slow but can be very portable.
Faster, but less portable, a dynamic compiler can translate to native code and dispatch
regions of the virtual application. A dynamic compiler can exploit runtime knowledge of
program values so it can sometimes do a better job of optimizing the program than a
static compiler
29. Supervisors
A supervisory program or supervisor is a computer program, usually part of an operating system, that controls the
execution of other routines and regulates work scheduling, input/output operations, error actions, and similar
functions and regulates the flow of work in a data processing system. It is thus capable of executing both
input/output operations and privileged operations. The operating system of a computer usually operates in this
mode.
Supervisor mode is "an execution mode on some processors which enables execution of all instructions, including
privileged instructions. It may also give access to a different address space, to memory management hardware and to
other peripherals. This is the mode in which the operating system usually runs.“
It can also refer to a program that allocates computer component space and schedules computer events by task
queuing and system interrupts. Control of the system is returned to the supervisory program frequently enough to
ensure that demands on the system are met.
Historically, this term was essentially associated with IBM's line of mainframe operating systems starting with OS/360.
In other operating systems, the supervisor is generally called the kernel. In the 1970s, IBM further abstracted the
supervisor state from the hardware, resulting in a hypervisor that enabled full virtualization, i.e. the capacity to run
multiple operating systems on the same machine totally independently from each other. Hence the first such system
was called Virtual Machine or VM.
30. Xen
Xen (pronounced /ˈzɛn/) is a type-1 hypervisor, providing services that allow multiple
computer operating systems to execute on the same computer
hardware concurrently.
It was originally developed by the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory and
is now being developed by the Linux Foundation with support from Intel, Citrix, Arm
Ltd, Huawei, AWS, Alibaba Cloud, AMD, Bitdefender and epam.
The Xen Project community develops and maintains Xen Project as free and open-
source software, subject to the requirements of the GNU General Public
License (GPL), version 2. Xen Project is currently available for the IA-32, x86-
64 and ARM instruction sets.
31. Xen provides a form of virtualization known as Paravirtualization, in which guests run a
modified operating system.
The guests are modified to use a special hypercall ABI, instead of certain architectural
features.
Through Paravirtualization, Xen can achieve high performance even on its host
architecture (x86) which has a reputation for non-cooperation with traditional virtualization
techniques.
Xen can run paravirtualized guests ("PV guests" in Xen terminology) even on CPUs without
any explicit support for virtualization.
Paravirtualization avoids the need to emulate a full set of hardware and firmware services,
which makes a PV system simpler to manage and reduces the attack surface exposed to
potentially malicious guests. On 32-bit x86, the Xen host kernel code runs in Ring 0, while
the hosted domains run in Ring 1 (kernel) and Ring 3 (applications).
Contd……
32. KVM
Xen (pronounced /ˈzɛn/) is a type-1 hypervisor, providing services that allow multiple
computer operating systems to execute on the same computer
hardware concurrently.
It was originally developed by the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory and
is now being developed by the Linux Foundation with support from Intel, Citrix, Arm
Ltd, Huawei, AWS, Alibaba Cloud, AMD, Bitdefender and epam.
The Xen Project community develops and maintains Xen Project as free and open-
source software, subject to the requirements of the GNU General Public
License (GPL), version 2. Xen Project is currently available for the IA-32, x86-
64 and ARM instruction sets.
33. VMware
Xen (pronounced /ˈzɛn/) is a type-1 hypervisor, providing services that allow multiple
computer operating systems to execute on the same computer
hardware concurrently.
It was originally developed by the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory and
is now being developed by the Linux Foundation with support from Intel, Citrix, Arm
Ltd, Huawei, AWS, Alibaba Cloud, AMD, Bitdefender and epam.
The Xen Project community develops and maintains Xen Project as free and open-
source software, subject to the requirements of the GNU General Public
License (GPL), version 2. Xen Project is currently available for the IA-32, x86-
64 and ARM instruction sets.
34. VirtualBox
VirtualBox is a powerful x86 and AMD64/Intel64 virtualization product for enterprise as
well as home use. Not only is VirtualBox an extremely feature rich, high performance
product for enterprise customers,
it is also the only professional solution that is freely available as Open Source Software
under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL) version 2.
Presently, VirtualBox runs on Windows, Linux, Macintosh, and Solaris hosts and supports
a large number of guest operating systems including but not limited to Windows (NT 4.0,
2000, XP, Server 2003, Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 10), DOS/Windows 3.x,
Linux (2.4, 2.6, 3.x and 4.x), Solaris and OpenSolaris, OS/2, and OpenBSD.
VirtualBox is being actively developed with frequent releases and has an ever growing
list of features, supported guest operating systems and platforms it runs on.
VirtualBox is a community effort backed by a dedicated company: everyone is
encouraged to contribute while Oracle ensures the product always meets professional
quality criteria.
35. Microsoft Hyper-V (Type-1), codenamed Viridian, and briefly known before its release as Windows Server
Virtualization, is a native hypervisor; it can create virtual machines on x86-64 systems running Windows.
A Type 1 hypervisor runs directly on the underlying computer's physical hardware, interacting directly with its CPU,
memory, and physical storage. For this reason, Type 1 hypervisors are also referred to as bare-metal hypervisors. A
Type 1 hypervisor takes the place of the host operating system.
A Type 2 hypervisor, also called a hosted hypervisor, is a virtual machine (VM) manager that is installed as a
software application on an existing operating system (OS). This makes it easy for an end user to run a VM on a
personal computing (PC) device.
The main difference between Type 1 vs. Type 2 hypervisors is that Type 1 runs on bare metal and Type 2 runs on top
of an operating system.
The key difference between Hyper-V and a Type 2 hypervisor is that Hyper-V uses hardware-assisted virtualization.
This allows Hyper-V virtual machines to communicate directly with the server hardware, allowing virtual machines to
perform far better than a Type 2 hypervisor would allow.
Contd…
Hyper-V