—In recent years, virtualization has become an es sential technology for modern enterprise and academic comput ing. Virtualization uncouples software from hardware, enabling workload consolidation, disaster recovery, scalable test labs, and affordable deployment in the cloud perspective. Hypervisors create and manage virtual machines while establishing isolation, sharing resources evenly while supporting guest environments with different requirements. While students learn the theory behind virtualization, memory management, and scheduling, they do not have valuable opportunities to experience, visualize, and experiment with those concepts in a real and/or meaningful way. The gap between the abstract model and system-level behavior results in significant missed learning opportunities for computer scientists and engineers in training. This project seeks to remedy this gap with a novel, web-based hypervisor simulation with a visual interface. Our program enables stronger utility of hypervisor and operating system knowledge through the use of interactive dashboards, visualization of dynamic system resources, algorithmic step-throughs and ephemeral memory and CPU simulation. The simulator gives users the ability to customize and define scheduling and memory allocation strategies thus providing a real-world, logical context to learning with a practical application for students, teachers and hobbyists alike. User experimentation and feedback illustrates notable improvements in understanding, engagement, and preparedness for complex concepts dealing with virtualization.

Virtualization, Hypervisor, Virtual Machine, Operating System Simulator, Teaching Tool, Cloud Computing, Memory Allocation, CPU Scheduling, Context Switching, Real Time Visualization, Interactive Dashboard, Educational Tech nology, Web-based Platform,