Virtual Machine Operating System Research Articles

Performance analysis of Proxmox VE firewall for network security in cloud computing server implementation

Virtualization server uses the hypervisor technology in its implementation. Hypervisor is one of the virtualization techniques. Where this technique runs several operating systems together in one host. Cloud computing is a combination of the use of internet-based computer technology. The Open source Proxmox VE (Virtual Environment) is a virtual machine operating system. Where virtual machines are built from the Debian Linux operating system, with the modified RHEL kernel. A firewall is a system designed to prevent attacks on the network. Firewalls can be software or hardware that filters network traffic. Proxmox VE Firewall provides a way to protect network infrastructure. In Proxmox VE firewall allows setting rules for all hosts in a cluster or for virtual machines. In this study, the performance of the firewall from the server virtualization using ProxmoxVE will be examined. This study is intended to determine the performance of the firewall default from Proxmox VE. Firewall testing is done by creating filtering rules in the Proxmox VE cloud server. The results of this study will provide an analysis of the performance of the Proxmox VE firewall that runs on cloud servers. The analysis presents that iptables firewall rules can be applied to cloud servers.

Micro-CernVM: slashing the cost of building and deploying virtual machines

The traditional virtual machine (VM) building and and deployment process is centered around the virtual machine hard disk image. The packages comprising the VM operating system are carefully selected, hard disk images are built for a variety of different hypervisors, and images have to be distributed and decompressed in order to instantiate a virtual machine. Within the HEP community, the CernVM File System (CernVM-FS) has been established in order to decouple the distribution from the experiment software from the building and distribution of the VM hard disk images. We show how to get rid of such pre-built hard disk images altogether. Due to the high requirements on POSIX compliance imposed by HEP application software, CernVM-FS can also be used to host and boot a Linux operating system. This allows the use of a tiny bootable CD image that comprises only a Linux kernel while the rest of the operating system is provided on demand by CernVM-FS. This approach speeds up the initial instantiation time and reduces virtual machine image sizes by an order of magnitude. Furthermore, security updates can be distributed instantaneously through CernVM-FS. By leveraging the fact that CernVM-FS is a versioning file system, a historic analysis environment can be easily re-spawned by selecting the corresponding CernVM-FS file system snapshot.

Development of a web-based glaucoma registry at King Khaled Eye Specialist Hospital, Saudi Arabia: a cost-effective methodology.

In this brief communication, we present the steps used to establish a web-based congenital glaucoma registry at our institution. The contents of a case report form (CRF) were developed by a group of glaucoma subspecialists. Information Technology (IT) specialists used Lime Survey softwareTM to create an electronic CRF. A MY Structured Query Language (MySQL) server was used as a database with a virtual machine operating system. Two ophthalmologists and 2 IT specialists worked for 7 hours, and a biostatistician and a data registrar worked for 24 hours each to establish the electronic CRF. Using the CRF which was transferred to the Lime survey tool, and the MYSQL server application, data could be directly stored in spreadsheet programs that included Microsoft Excel, SPSS, and R-Language and queried in real-time. In a pilot test, clinical data from 80 patients with congenital glaucoma were entered into the registry and successful descriptive analysis and data entry validation was performed. A web-based disease registry was established in a short period of time in a cost-efficient manner using available resources and a team-based approach.

Firmware/hardware support for operating systems

Firmware/hardware support for operating systems is described briefly, and proposed criteria for determining which operating system functions are the best candidates for firmware/hardware implementation are listed. A selected history of the area is presented in three sections: past and current research in support for virtual machines and two sections on past and current research in support for non -- virtual machine operating system functions.