Virtualization: an old concept in a new approach

Banica, Logica, Rosca, Doina and Stefan, Cristian (2007): Virtualization: an old concept in a new approach. Published in: Academy of Economic Studies, Bucharest, Economy Informatics 1-4 1 (2007): pp. 118-123.

Abstract

Virtualization technology is transforming today’s IT community, offering new possi-bilities to improve the performance and efficiency of IT infrastructure by a dynamic mapping of the PC resources, enabling to run multiple applications and operating systems on a single physical system. Virtualization also offers high availability and error recovery solutions by encapsulating entire systems into single files that can be replicated and restored on any desti-nation machine. This paper brings new elements related to the concept of virtualization, presenting the princi-ples, the new architectures and the advantages of the virtualization. We make also a brief comparison between the PC’s functional structure before and after the virtualization. Finally, we present licensed software to create and run multiple virtual machines on a personal com-puter.

• Item Type: MPRA Paper
• Language: English
• Keywords: Virtualization, hypervisor, partitioning, virtual machine
• Subjects: C - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods > C8 - Data Collection and Data Estimation Methodology; Computer Programs > C88 - Other Computer Software; C - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods > C9 - Design of Experiments > C93 - Field Experiments

References

[1] http://www.vmware.com

[2] http://www.virtualization.info

[3] http://www.easyvmx.com/

[4]http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/virtualpc/default.mspx

[5] http://vmwarez.com/