By using virtualization, users can have more different software-based environments for various usages on one computer system, which enables reduction of expenses while boosting efficiency, flexibility, scalability and agility . The biggest advantage is that it enables heterogeneous services to be hosted upon shared physical infrastructure. Over the years, virtualization of computers and operating systems has grown in one of the keystone technology and today it is ubiquitous in modern IT industry from huge data centres to personal computers, and it is used by majority of organizations and IT companies, in general. Performance measurement results show that Window 7 is the most suitable virtual operating system since it obtains the best performance when run on a Linux host.
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This paper presents a performance evaluation of three different virtual machines run by three recent versions of Windows operating system, namely Windows 7 TM Professional, Windows 8.1 TM Professional and Windows 10 TM Professional, on a host computer system run by Linux Ubuntu. Emulated hardware is managed by virtualization tool that provides lower resources when compared to physical hardware. Each virtual machine is a separate instance that is completely independent and separated from the computer hardware and it runs on emulated hardware.
It increases efficiency, flexibility and scalability of IT equipment by enabling different software-based environments on a single physical hardware. Virtualization has experienced a dramatic expansion recently and today is ubiquitous in modern IT industry since it provides numerous benefits to companies and individual users.