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A Performance Comparison between Enlightenment and Emulation in Microsoft Hyper-V

Hasan Fayyad-Kazan, Luc Perneel, Martin Timmerman

Volume 13 Issue 2

Global Journal of Computer Science and Technology

Microsoft (MS) Hyper-V is a native hypervisor that enables platform virtualization on x86-64 systems. It is a microkernelized hypervisor where a host operating system provides the drivers for the hardware. This approach leverages MS Hyper-V to support enlightenments (the Microsoft name for Paravirtualization) in addition to the hardware emulation virtualization technique. This paper provides a quantitative performance comparison, using different tests and scenarios, between enlightened and emulated Virtual Machines (VMs) hosted by MS Hyper-V server 2012. The experimental results show that MS enlightenments improve performance by a factor of more than two.
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