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Over the past few years, researchers have been propelled for a Utility Computing Model. Cloud computing allows delivering resource on demand by means of virtualization. Virtualization has been around from the period of Mainframe computing. The proposal of using a computer system to emulate another computer system was early realized as useful for testing and increased resource utilization purposes. As with several computer technologies, IBM initiated the way with their VM system. In the last decennary, VMware’s virtual machine monitor has been quite successful. In recent times, open-source hypervisor’s like Xen and KVM added virtualization to the open source world, initially with a variant named para-virtualization and later using hardware assisted full virtualization. This paper surveys two main virtualization technologies: Xen and KVM. Also system and network performance evaluation tests are conducted to analyze scalability and performance of the virtualized environment.
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Binu, A., Kumar, G.S. (2011). Virtualization Techniques: A Methodical Review of XEN and KVM. In: Abraham, A., Lloret Mauri, J., Buford, J.F., Suzuki, J., Thampi, S.M. (eds) Advances in Computing and Communications. ACC 2011. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 190. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-22709-7_40
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