Virtualization has become commonplace in modern data centers, often referred as
“computing clouds”. The capability of virtual machine live migration brings benefits such as …

The advent of virtualisation and the increasing demand for outsourced, elastic compute
charged on a pay-as-you-use basis has stimulated the development of large-scale Cloud …

This survey is an up-to-date account of the research on virtual machine consolidation
overhead. The overhead influencing factors are analyzed throughout this work. Based on …

Due to trends like Cloud Computing and Green IT, virtualization technologies are gaining
increasing importance. They promise energy and cost savings by sharing physical …

We present initial results from and quantitative analysis of two leading open source
hypervisors, Xen and KVM. This study focuses on the overall performance, performance …

Virtualization technology enables server consolidation and has given an impetus to low-cost
green data centers. However, current hypervisors do not provide adequate support for real …

Improving energy efficiency of data centers has become increasingly important nowadays
due to the significant amounts of power needed to operate these centers. An important …

Although virtualization holds numerous merits, it meanwhile incurs some performance loss.
As the pivotal component of a virtualization system, the efficiency of virtual machine monitor …

Virtual machine technology is widely applied to modern data center for cloud computing as a
key technology to realize energy-efficient operation of servers. Server consolidation …

This paper presents a performance comparison of two hypervisors, VirtualBox and VMWare
Workstation 15 Player. The performances of the hypervisors are evaluated through the …