Naslov
Performance evaluation of windows virtual machines on a Linux host

Autori
Balen, Josip ; Vdovjak, Krešimir ; Martinović, Goran

Izvornik
Automatika : Journal for Control, Measurement, Electronics, Computing and Communications (0005-1144) 61 (2020), 3; 425-435

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Radovi u časopisima, članak, znanstveni

Ključne riječi
Linux ; operating system ; performance evaluation ; virtual machine ; windows

Sažetak
Virtualization has experienced a dramatic expansion recently and today is ubiquitous in modern IT industry since it provides numerous benefits to companies and individual users. It increases efficiency, flexibility and scalability of IT equipment by enabling different software-based envi- ronments on a single physical hardware. Each virtual machine is a separate instance that is completely independent and separated from the computer hardware and it runs on emulated hardware. Emulated hardware is managed by virtualization tool that provides lower resources when compared to physical hardware. This paper presents a performance evaluation of three different virtual machines run by three recent versions of Windows operating system, namely Windows 7 TM Professional, Windows 8.1 TM Professional and Windows 10 TM Professional, on a host computer system run by Linux Ubuntu. Performance measurement results show that Win- dow 7 is the most suitable virtual operating system since it obtains the best performance when run on a Linux host.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Elektrotehnika, Računarstvo

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