Performance Overhead Based Analysis of Container Based Virtualization with Type 1, Type 2 Hypervisor

Virtualization is a rapidly growing advance technology in the present computer world to save the cost, efficiency and efforts. Instead on installing a new operating system Hypervisor based virtualization technique and container based technology is the primarily choice of researchers and developers. In the present era of cloud computing Container based virtualization is also become popular parallel with Hypervisor-based virtualization. In this paper we present a performance evaluation among type-1 hypervisor (KVM), type-2 hypervisor (VirtualBox) and Docker a container based virtualization technology. For performance evaluation we use Disk I/O benchmarking tool iozone and for CPU benchmarking we use sysbench. Our result from experiment represent that container based virtualization technique provides better performance in Disk I/O operations and CPU utilization compared to type-1 and type-2 hypervisor technology.