Abstract
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 environments 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 7TM Professional, Windows 8.1TM Professional and Windows 10TM Professional, on a host computer system run by Linux Ubuntu. Performance measurement results show that Window 7 is the most suitable virtual operating system since it obtains the best performance when run on a Linux host.
Highlights
Over the years, virtualization of computers and operating systems has grown in one of the keystone technology and today it is ubiquitous in modern IT industry from huge data centres to personal computers, and it is used by majority of organizations and IT companies, in general
This paper presents a performance evaluation of three different virtual machines run by three recent versions of Windows operating system, namely Windows 7TM Professional, Windows 8.1TM Professional and Windows 10TM Professional, on a host computer system run by Linux Ubuntu
Performance evaluation shows that Windows 7 still has the best performance when used as a virtual operating system on Linux Ubuntu host operating system when compared to newer versions of Windows operating system, Windows 8.1 and Windows 10
Summary
Virtualization of computers and operating systems has grown in one of the keystone technology and today it is ubiquitous in modern IT industry from huge data centres to personal computers, and it is used by majority of organizations and IT companies, in general. This paper, to some extent, continues our work descried in [3] where we used a reverse logic in order to study how different host operating systems influence virtual machine performance. It still remains unknown which virtual machine achieves the best performance while running on the identical host. We study performance of three different virtual machines on the identical host computer system. Performance evaluation shows that Windows 7 still has the best performance when used as a virtual operating system on Linux Ubuntu host operating system when compared to newer versions of Windows operating system, Windows 8.1 and Windows 10.
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