Virtualization

Virtualization is a technology that abstracts physical computing resources through software, enabling multiple independent virtual machines to operate concurrently and in isolation on a single physical system.

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Cloud ComputingComputer SystemsInformation Technology

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Application VirtualizationCloud VirtualizationContainer VirtualizationData Center VirtualizationDesktop VirtualizationFull VirtualizationHardware VirtualizationHardware-assisted VirtualizationInput VirtualizationLive Migration

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OpenFlow

Nick McKeown, Tom Anderson, Hari Balakrishnan et al. · ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review · 2008 · 8.4K citations

Computing, Computer Engineering, Computer Systems +16

Xen and the art of virtualization

Paul Barham, Boris Dragovic, Keir Fraser et al. · ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review · 2003 · 5.9K citations

Computing, Computer Science, Computer Systems +16

CloudSim: a toolkit for modeling and simulation of cloud computing environments and evaluation of resource provisioning algorithms

Rodrigo N. Calheiros, Rajiv Ranjan, Anton Beloglazov et al. · Software Practice and Experience · 2010 · 4.9K citations · Full text

Computing, Cloud Computing, Computer Systems +17

The Case for VM-Based Cloudlets in Mobile Computing

Mahadev Satyanarayanan, Paramvir Bahl, Rafaela Cáceres et al. · IEEE Pervasive Computing · 2009 · 3.7K citations

Computing, Cloud Computing, Computer Systems +12

Live migration of virtual machines

Christopher J. Clark, Keir Fraser, Steven Hand et al. · 2005 · 2.6K citations

Computing, Computer Engineering, Computer Systems +9

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Rajkumar Buyya
The University of Melbourne, Australia
71 publications · 14.2K citations
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Tarik Taleb
Aalto University, Finland
55 publications · 3.5K citations
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Raouf Boutaba
University of Waterloo, Canada
59 publications · 9.7K citations
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F. Richard Yu
Carleton University, Canada
44 publications · 3.6K citations
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Hai Jin
Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China
68 publications · 4.2K citations
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IEEE Communications Magazine
181 publications · 18.9K citations
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IEEE Access
284 publications · 14K citations
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IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management
TNSM · 237 publications · 12.1K citations
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IEEE Network
97 publications · 8.1K citations
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IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
93 publications · 6K citations
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See also Virtualization
Core Methods	Virtual Machine Monitors Full Virtualization Operating System Virtualization Hardware-assisted Virtualization Type 1 Hypervisors Type 2 Hypervisors Paravirtualization Hardware-assisted Emulation Binary Translation Dynamic Code Generation Power-aware Scheduling
Variants	Virtualization Hardware Virtualization Network Virtualization Server Virtualization Storage Virtualization Desktop Virtualization Resource Virtualization Full Virtualization Operating System Virtualization Data Center Virtualization Paravirtualization Bare-metal Virtualization Application Virtualization Hosted Virtualization
Applications	Virtualization Network Virtualization Server Virtualization Storage Virtualization Desktop Virtualization Virtual Desktop Infrastructure Disaster Recovery Application Virtualization User Profile Virtualization
Evaluation	Virtual Machine Consolidation Resource Utilization Performance Isolation Performance Overhead Multi-attribute Filtering Resource Overcommitment Cache Contention Throughput Regression Hardware-assisted Virtualization
Limitations	Virtualization Fault Propagation Analysis Virtual Machine Escape Vulnerabilities