Virtualization

Operating System Level Virtualization is Commonly Known as Container Based Virtualization. Docker is a Common Example. Basics Has Benn Discussed in this Article. Actually, we have talked about container based virtualization, Docker like topics before. Many questions are asked around Operating System Level Virtualization via Contact Us Page or over the social networks. We are trying to explain the … [Read more...]

HipHop Virtual Machine (HHVM) is a process virtual machine developed by Facebook, serves as an execution engine for PHP, based on JIT. HipHop Virtual Machine (HHVM) is an Open Source Software like PHP. We can install HipHop Virtual Machine (HHVM) on the top of Nginx Web Server Software, that is the basic importance to know about HipHop Virtual Machine. HipHop for PHP (HPHPc) was also developed by … [Read more...]

Docker is not a complete virtualization technology, but has features that, if developed; could compete in hypervisor such as VMware. When we talk about virtualization, always we include the classic examples of hypervisors such as VMware and Hyper-V and, although less frequently; technologies like Xen and KVM. In this list of virtualization technologies, almost never include Docker and the … [Read more...]

GlusterFS is a distributed file system, the memory elements are presented as a single file system from a plurality of servers or nodes. The various servers even nodes, form a client-server architecture over TCP / IP. A distinctive feature from NAS systems is that, a redundant connection of storage devices over TCP / IP is possible. The data on all the cluster nodes can be read and written at the … [Read more...]

Hardware Assisted Virtualization is also known as native virtualization. This is an approach to full virtualization in extended condition, wherein the processor provides the architectural support to facilitate the construction and the hypervisor forward calls of different guest operating system directly to the physical hardware, increasing the overall performance of the system. Xen hypervisor, … [Read more...]

Jailed Shell or VirtFS is a paravirtualized filesystem based on the VirtIO framework often used by Shared Servers to protect the other users. We talked briefly about paravirtualization, KVM here is Kernel Based Virtual Machine (there is another KVM - which is a switch), SSH to Shared Hosting Server etcetera topics. Jailed Shell is a wider topic which includes a rightly defined, protocol based … [Read more...]