Hypervisor Investigation

Investigated Stacks With Arbitrary Factoids

VMware ESXi

• Full Hardware Virtualization
  • Supports hardware assist via Intel VT-x or AMD-v CPU extensions
  • Paravirtualized VMware drivers

Ubuntu LTS

• Libvirt/QEMU/KVM
  • Supports hardware assist via Intel VT-x or AMD-v CPU extensions
  • Paravirtualized QEMU drivers
• LXC (Linux Containers)
  • OS Virtualization
• Docker
  • OS Virtualization with API

Debian Stable

• Libvirt/QEMU/KVM
  • Supports hardware assist via Intel VT-x or AMD-v CPU extensions
  • Paravirtualized QEMU drivers
• LXC (Linux Containers)
  • OS Virtualization
• Docker
  • OS Virtualization with API

OpenIndiana

• QEMU/KVM
  • Supports hardware assist via Intel VT-x or experimental AMD-v CPU extensions
  • Paravirtualized QEMU drivers
• Solaris Zones
  • OS Virtualization
    • Software Userland same as OI using pkg

OmniOS

• QEMU/KVM
  • Supports hardware assist via Intel VT-x or experimental AMD-v CPU extensions
  • Paravirtualized drivers
• Solaris Zones
  • OS Virtualization
    • Software Userland same as OmniOS using pkg
    • Clean, Easily Fork-able and Customizable pkg Tree Documented by Omni

SmartOS

• QEMU/KVM with High Quality CLI
  • Supports hardware assist via Intel VT-x or experimental AMD-v CPU extensions
  • Paravirtualized drivers
  • Provisioned Inside Zone
• Solaris Zones
  • OS Virtualization
    • Software Userland Minimal
    • Package management via pkgsrc with illumos based tree