NHVM: Design and Implementation of Linux Server Virtual Machine Using Hybrid Virtualization Technology

The virtualization technology has been developed rapidly with the growth of the hardware supported virtualization technologies and the appearance of the various services. Many researchers are concentrating on developing the virtualization technologies which are recognized as the most significant core technology of the IT applications such as green IT and cloud computing. The major processor companies have introduced various hardware supported virtualization technologies for overcoming the limitations of the software virtualization technologies. Until now, however, the hardware supported virtualization technologies are used only for supporting the full-virtualization technologies. In this paper, we introduced our efficient server virtual machine, which merged the hardware supported virtualization technologies with conventional para-virtualization technologies. Through our proposed hybrid virtualization technology, we could reduce the complexity and overhead of traditional server virtual machines. And lastly, we evaluated and compared our proposed virtual machine with traditional server virtual machines through the experiments.