Conference Virtualization

Pre-Virtualization: Slashing the Cost of Virtualization

Despite its current popularity, para-virtualization has an enormous cost. Its diversion from the platform architecture abandons many of the benefits that come with pure virtualization (the faithful emulation of the platform API): stable and well-defined platform interfaces, single binaries for kernel and device drivers (and thus lower testing, maintenance, and support cost), and vendor independ...

Virtualization Security

The recent form of change in working on resources and platform introduced the term virtualization. Virtualization comes with its own merits and challenges. As it hides physical characteristics of the resources and the concept of encapsulation comes into picture. Hypervisor based architecture requires fewer hardware resources and can communicate more efficiently. All major players have introduce...

Virtualization Renaissance

ing from embedded to server systems. Enterprises commonly employ virtual LANs and private networks (VLANs, VPNs). System area networks use storage virtualization to simplify the management of complex, heterogeneous storage configurations. Virtualization technologies encompass a variety of mechanisms and techniques used to decouple the architecture and user-perceived behavior of hardware and sof...

OS Virtualization

Intel Virtualization Technology: Hardware Support for Efficient Processor Virtualization

Virtualizing the physical resources of a computing system to improve sharing and utilization has been done for decades. Virtualization had once been confined to specialized server and mainframe systems, but improvements in the performance of platforms based on Intel technology now allow those platforms to efficiently support virtualization. However, the IA-32 and Itanium processor architectures...