global-journal-of-computer-science-and-technology-a-hardware-computation Global Journal of Computer Science and Technology - A: Hardware & Computation 0975-4350 0975-4172 Global Journals Publishing Group Incorporated 89650 A Performance Comparison between Enlightenment and Emulation in Microsoft Hyper-V Fayyad-KazanHasan PerneelLuc TimmermanMartin BELGIUM, Vrije Universiteit Brussel 15 01 2013 13 A2 21 28

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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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.