A Comparative Study of Application Portability With Virtualization Softwares

Virtualization is a proven software technology that is rapidly transforming the IT landscape and fundamentally changing the way that people compute. Different virtual machines can run different operating systems and multiple applications on the same physical computer. Virtualization is a framework or methodology of dividing the resources of a computer into multiple execution environments, by applying one or more concepts or technologies such as hardware and software partitioning, time-sharing, partial or complete machine simulation, emulation, quality of service, and many others. This paper will discuss their types, the products currently available in the marketplace and impact of application virtualization technologies.