@article{335,
  author = {Hira Sathu, Kishan Bhashyam, Ranjana Shukla},
  title = {Performance of Workstation 6},
  journal = {Journal of Information Technology Review},
  year = {2010},
  volume = {1},
  number = {3},
  doi = {},
  url = {http://www.dline.info/jitr/fulltext/v1n3/2.pdf},
  abstract = {A two stage study on the applications of virtual operating systems ove the currently popular virtualised environment of VMware Workstation 6 was carried out. The current work addresses the findings generated during testing the performance of three different operating systems, Window XP, Ubuntu Linux, Macintosh operating system and applications running under VMware’s virtualized environment. The performance tests covered parameters such as: boot-up and shut-down response times, central processing unit and random access memory usage. Similar resources had to be configured for each of the operating systems to receive meaningful results. The experiments revealed that VMware performance as a virtualised platform was satisfactory. The results concluded that the Macintosh operating system proved to be the worst in performance as compared to Windows XP and Ubuntu Linux. Ubuntu Linux performed impressively in the virtual environment with minor constraints which are listed in the paper. Windows XP was the best virtual operating system for use over VMware’s virtual environment from among the tested operating systems. This research provides a base for conducting further study in the area of virtualization such as depth of nesting of OSs in virtual environment, number of OSs that can be supported in VMware, security between various virtual OSs and between Virtual OSs and the external network environment.},
}