Scalability comparison of four host virtualization tools

Journal of Grid Computing

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 83-98

  Quétier, Benjamin ^a   Neri, Vincent ^a   Cappello, Franck ^a  

^a INRIA   (France)

Author keywords

Overhead evaluation; Performance comparison; Scalability; Virtual machines

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS; GRID COMPUTING; SCALABILITY;

MICROBENCHMARKS; OVERHEAD EVALUATION; VIRTUAL MACHINES;

VIRTUAL REALITY;

EID: 34250377536     PISSN: 15707873     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10723-006-9052-6     Document Type: Article

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