%% You should probably cite draft-natarajan-nfvrg-containers-for-nfv-03 instead of this revision. @techreport{natarajan-nfvrg-containers-for-nfv-02, number = {draft-natarajan-nfvrg-containers-for-nfv-02}, type = {Internet-Draft}, institution = {Internet Engineering Task Force}, publisher = {Internet Engineering Task Force}, note = {Work in Progress}, url = {https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-natarajan-nfvrg-containers-for-nfv/02/}, author = {natarajan.sriram@gmail.com and Ramki Krishnan and Anoop Ghanwani and Dilip Krishnaswamy and Peter Willis and Ashay Chaudhary and Felipe Huici}, title = {{An Analysis of Lightweight Virtualization Technologies for NFV}}, pagetotal = 16, year = 2016, month = jul, day = 4, abstract = {Traditionally, NFV platforms were limited to using standard virtualization technologies (e.g., Xen, KVM, VMWare, Hyper-V, etc.) running guests based on general-purpose operating systems such as Windows, Linux or FreeBSD. More recently, a number of light-weight virtualization technologies including containers, unikernels (specialized VMs) and minimalistic distributions of general-purpose OSes have widened the spectrum of possibilities when constructing an NFV platform. This draft describes the challenges in building such a platform and discusses to what extent these technologies, as well as traditional VMs, are able to address them.}, }