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Virtualization

By
Mr. Sameer Patil
KIT’s College of Engineering, Kolhapur
Characteristics of Virtualization
• Increased Security
• Managed Execution
• Sharing
• Aggregation
• Emulation
• Isolation
• Portability
Virtualization Techniques
• Execution Virtualization
• Process Level
• Emulated
• High-Level VM- JVM
• Multiprogramming – OS
• System Level
• Hardware Assisted
• Full Virtualization
• Paravirtualization
• Partial Virtualization
Some other types of Virtualization
• Network Virtualization
• Creating Virtual Network Interface
• Creating Virtual Network Bridge

• Storage Virtualization
• Creating Virtual Storage Disks
• Creating Network Shared Virtual Storage Drive
• Most popular
• Computing –Amazon, Azure, Google Cloud
• Storage-Amazon s3
Is hypervisor (virtualization) always benefits
• Fundamental IT Service requirement
• Customization is very easy and simple
• Security
• Isolation
• Manageability
• Most Popular
• Computing Virtualization and Storage Virtualization
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• Pros
• Manged Execution
• Isolation
• Customization- Configuring h/w resources
• Portable
• More efficient use of Resources.
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• Cons
• Performance degradation
• Status of Virtual machine processors
• Privileged Instruction- (trap and simulate/emulate)
• OS operations- e.g. paging
• Console Functions
• VM manager is treated as just another process
• Ultimate questions is
• User Experience
• Security threats to virtualization
• BluePill virtualization attack-specific to AMD processor
• Sub Virt – Takes the control of the host

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