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Comparison of platform virtualization software
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Platform virtualization software, specifically emulators and hypervisors, are software packages that emulate the whole physical computer machine, often providing multiple virtual machines on one physical platform. The table below compares basic information about platform virtualization hypervisors.
Contents
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1 General
2 Features
3 Image type compatibility
4 Other features
5 Restrictions
6 See also
7 Notes
8 References
General[edit]
Name
Creator
Host CPU
Guest CPU
Host OS
Guest OS
License
bhyve
FreeBSD x86-64 x86, x86-64 FreeBSD, Illumos FreeBSD, FreeNAS, pfSense, OpenBSD, Linux, Windows, Illumos[1] BSD
Bochs
Kevin J. Lawton Any x86, x86-64 Windows, Linux, FreeBSD, Unix/X11, Mac OS 9, macOS, BeOS, MorphOS, OS/2[2][3] Windows, Linux, DOS, BSD, OS/2, Haiku LGPL
Containers, or Zones
Sun Microsystems x86, x86-64, SPARC (portable: not tied to hardware) Same as host Solaris 10, Solaris 11, OpenSolaris 2009.06, illumos distributions Solaris (8, 9, 10, 11), illumos, Linux (BrandZ) CDDL
Cooperative Linux (coLinux)
Dan Aloni, other developers x86 Same as host Windows 2000, XP, 2003, Vista Linux GPL version 2
CHARON
Stromasys x86, x86-64 PDP-11, VAX, Alpha, HP3000, Sparc Windows, Linux VMS, OpenVMS, Tru64 UNIX, MPE/iX, RSX-11, RT11, RSTS, Solaris, SunOS Proprietary
Denali
University of Washington x86 x86 Denali Ilwaco, NetBSD Not distributed
DOSBox
Peter Veenstra, Sjoerd with community Any x86 Linux, Windows, classic Mac OS, macOS, BeOS, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Solaris, QNX, IRIX, MorphOS, AmigaOS, Maemo, Symbian Internally emulated DOS shell; classic PC booter games, unofficially Windows 1.0 to 98 GPL
DOSEMU
Community project x86, x86-64 x86 Linux DOS GPL version 2
FreeBSD Jail
FreeBSD Any running FreeBSD Same as host FreeBSD FreeBSD, Linux ABI BSD
GNOME Boxes
GNOME Unix-like Unix-like LGPLv2
GXemul
Anders Gavare Any ARM, MIPS, Motorola 88000, PowerPC, SuperH Unix-like NetBSD, OpenBSD, Linux, Ultrix, Sprite BSD
Hercules
Roger Bowler Any z/Architecture Windows, FreeBSD, NetBSD, Linux, macOS Linux on z Systems, z/OS, z/VM, z/VSE, OS/360, DOS/360, DOS/VS, MVS, VM/370, TSS/370 QPL
Hyper-V (2008)
Microsoft x86-64 with Intel VT-x or AMD-V x86-64, x86 (up to 8 physical CPUs) Windows Server 2008 (R2) w/Hyper-V role, Microsoft Hyper-V Server Supported drivers for Windows 2000, Windows 2003, Windows 2008, Windows XP, Windows Vista, FreeBSD, Linux (SUSE 10 released, more announced) Proprietary
Hyper-V (2012)
Microsoft x86-64 with Intel VT-x or AMD-V x86-64, (up to 64 physical CPUs) Windows 8, 8.1, 10, and Windows Server 2012 (R2) w/Hyper-V role, Microsoft Hyper-V Server Supported drivers for Windows NT, FreeBSD, Linux (SUSE 10, RHEL 6, CentOS 6) Proprietary. Component of various Windows editions.
iCore Virtual Accounts
iCore Software x86 x86 Windows XP Windows XP Proprietary
INTEGRITY
Green Hills Software ARM, x86, PowerPC Same as host Linux, Windows INTEGRITY native, Linux, Android, AUTOSAR, Windows (on some platforms) Proprietary
Integrity Virtual Machines
Hewlett-Packard IA-64 IA-64 HP-UX HP-UX, Windows, Linux (OpenVMS announced) Proprietary
JPC (Virtual Machine)
Oxford University Any running the Java Virtual Machine x86 Java Virtual Machine DOS, Linux, Windows up to 3.0 GPL version 2
KVM
Qumranet, now Red Hat x86, x86-64, IA-64, with x86 virtualization, s390, PowerPC,[4] ARM [5] Same as host Linux, FreeBSD, illumos FreeBSD, Linux, Solaris, Windows, Plan 9 GPL version 2
Linux-VServer
Community project x86, x86-64, IA-64, Alpha, PowerPC 64, PA-RISC 64, SPARC64, ARM, S/390, SH/66, MIPS Compatible Linux Linux variants GPL version 2
LynxSecure
LynuxWorks x86 x86 No host OS LynxOS, Linux, Windows Proprietary
LXC
Community project, Canonical Ltd. x86, x86-64, IA-64, PowerPC 64, SPARC64, Itanium, ARM Same as host Linux Linux variants GPL version 2
OKL4 Microvisor
Open Kernel Labs, acquired by General Dynamics Corporation ARM, x86, MIPS ARM (v5, v6, v7; paravirtualization), ARMv7VE (hardware virtualization) No Host OS Various OSes and RTOSes including Linux, Android, QNX Proprietary
OpenVZ
Community project, supported by SWsoft, now Parallels, Inc. x86, x86-64, IA-64, PowerPC 64, SPARC64 Same as host Linux Linux variants GPL
Oracle VM Server for x86
Oracle Corporation x86, x86-64 x86, x86-64 No host OS Microsoft Windows, Oracle Linux, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Solaris GPLv2, Oracle VM Server; Manager is proprietary
OVPsim
OVP x86 OR1K, MIPS32, ARC600/700, ARM; and public API which enables users to write custom processor models, RISC, CISC, DSP, VLIW all possible Microsoft Windows, Linux Depends on target machine, for example includes MIPS Malta that runs Linux or SMP-Linux; and includes public API which enables users to write custom peripheral and system models Proprietary, Apache 2.0 for models
Parallels Desktop for Mac
Parallels, Inc. x86 x86, x86-64 macOS DOS, Windows, Linux, macOS, FreeBSD, OS/2, eComStation, Solaris, Haiku Proprietary
Parallels Workstation (discontinued 2013)
Parallels, Inc. x86 x86 Windows, Linux Windows, Linux, FreeBSD, OS/2, eComStation, DOS, Solaris, Haiku Proprietary
PearPC
Sebastian Biallas x86, x86-64, PowerPC PowerPC Windows, Linux, OS X, FreeBSD, NetBSD Mac OS X, Darwin, Linux GPL
PikeOS
SYSGO AG PowerPC, x86, ARM, MIPS, SPARC, SuperH Same as host No host OS, Linux or Windows as dev. hosts PikeOS native, Linux, POSIX, AUTOSAR, Android, RTEMS, OSEK, ARINC 653 APEX, ITRON Proprietary
Proxmox VE
Proxmox x86-64 x86, x86-64 Debian Based Windows, Linux, Linux variants, Solaris, FreeBSD, OSx86 (as FreeBSD), virtual appliances, Netware, OS/2, SCO, BeOS, Haiku, Darwin AGPLv3
Oracle VM Server for SPARC (LDoms)
Oracle Corporation UltraSPARC T1, UltraSPARC T2, UltraSPARC T2+, SPARC T3, SPARC T4 Compatible Solaris 10, Solaris 11 Oracle support: Solaris; unsupported: Linux, FreeBSD Proprietary
PowerVM
IBM POWER4, POWER5, POWER6, POWER7, POWER8 POWER4/5/6/7/8, x86 (PowerVM-Lx86) PowerVM Firmware Linux PowerPC, x86; AIX, IBM i Proprietary
QEMU
Fabrice Bellard, other developers x86, x86-64, IA-64, PowerPC, SPARC 32/64, ARM, S/390, MIPS x86, x86-64, Alpha, ARM, CRIS, LM32, M68k, MicroBlaze, MIPS, OpenRisc32, PowerPC, S/390, SH4, SPARC 32/64, Unicore32, Xtensa Windows, Linux, macOS, Solaris, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, BeOS Changes regularly[6] GPL/LGPL
QEMU w/ kqemu module
Fabrice Bellard x86, x86-64 Same as host Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Solaris, Windows Changes regularly[6] GPL/LGPL
QEMU w/ qvm86 module
Paul Brook x86 x86 Linux, NetBSD, Windows Changes regularly GPL
QuickTransit
Transitive Corp. x86, x86-64, IA-64, POWER MIPS, PowerPC, SPARC, x86 Linux, OS X, Solaris Linux, OS X, Irix, Solaris Proprietary
RTS Hypervisor
Real-Time Systems GmbH x86, x86-64 x86, x86-64 No host OS Windows, Linux, Windows Embedded, QNX, RTOS-32, VxWorks, OS-9, T-Kernel Proprietary
ScaleMP vSMP Foundation
ScaleMP x86, x86-64 Same as host No host OS Linux Proprietary
SIMH
Bob Supnik, The Computer History Simulation Project Alpha, ARM, HPPA, x86, IA-64, x86-64, M68K, MIPS, MIPSel, POWER, s390, SPARC Data General Nova, Eclipse; Digital Equipment Corporation PDP-1, PDP-4, PDP-7, PDP-8, PDP-9, PDP-10, PDP-11, PDP-15, VAX; GRI Corporation GRI-909; IBM 1401, 1620, 1130, 7090/7094, System/3; Interdata (Perkin-Elmer) 16b/32b systems; Hewlett-Packard 2114, 2115, 2116, 2100, 21MX; Honeywell H316/H516; MITS Altair 8800 with 8080 and Z80; Royal McBee LGP-30, LGP-21; Scientific Data Systems SDS 940 BSD, Linux, Solaris, VMS, Windows Depends on target machine, includes NetBSD/VAX, OpenBSD/VAX, VAX/VMS, Unix v6, Unix v7, TOPS-10, TOPS-20, ITS BSD-like, unique
Simics
Wind River x86, x86-64 8051, 68000, ARM (v4, v5, v6, v7), MIPS32, MIPS64, Cavium cnMIPS, Broadcom XLR MIPS, Freescale Power Architecture 32-bit and 64-bit (e300, e500, e600, e5500, e6500), IBM Power Architecture (POWER, PPC44x, PPC46x, 47x), SPARC v8 (LEON), SPARC v9 (UltraSparc), x86 (from 80286 to Sandy Bridge), x86-64 (from Pentium4 to Sandy Bridge), TI TMS320C64xx, Renesas H8, Renesas SH Windows 32-bit and 64-bit, Linux 32-bit and 64-bit Depends on target machine, typically runs unmodified software stacks from the corresponding real target, including VxWorks, VxWorks 653, OSE, QNX, Linux, Solaris, Windows, FreeBSD, RTEMS, TinyOS, Wind River Hypervisor, VMware ESX, and others Proprietary
Sun xVM Server
Sun Microsystems x86-64, SPARC Same as host No host OS Windows XP, 2003 Server (x86-64 only), Linux, Solaris GPL version 3
SVISTA 2004
Serenity Systems International x86 x86 Windows, OS/2, Linux Windows, Linux, OS/2, BSD Proprietary
TRANGO
TRANGO Virtual Processors, Grenoble, France ARM, XScale, MIPS, PowerPC Paravirtualized ARM, MIPS, PowerPC No host OS, Linux or Windows as dev. hosts Linux, eCos, µC/OS-II, WindowsCE, Nucleus, VxWorks Proprietary
User Mode Linux
Jeff Dike, other developers x86, x86-64, PowerPC Same as host Linux Linux GPL version 2
VirtualBox
Innotek, acquired by Oracle Corporation x86, x86-64 x86, x86-64 (with Intel VT-x or AMD-V, and VirtualBox 2 or later) Windows, Linux, macOS, Solaris, FreeBSD, eComStation DOS, Linux, macOS,[7] FreeBSD, Haiku, OS/2, Solaris, Syllable, Windows, and OpenBSD (with Intel VT-x or AMD-V, due to otherwise tolerated incompatibilities in the emulated memory management).[8] GPL version 2; full version with extra enterprise features is proprietary:
Virtual Iron 3.1
Virtual Iron Software, Inc., acquired by Oracle x86 VT-x, x86-64 AMD-V x86, x86-64 No host OS Windows, Linux Proprietary, some components GPLv2[9]
Virtual PC 2007 (discontinued)
Connectix and Microsoft x86, x86-64 x86 Windows Vista (Business, Enterprise, Ultimate), XP Pro, XP Tablet PC Edition DOS, Windows, OS/2, Linux (SUSE, Xubuntu), OpenSolaris (Belenix) Proprietary
Windows Virtual PC (discontinued)
Connectix and Microsoft x86, x86-64 with Intel VT-x or AMD-V x86 Windows 7 Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008 Proprietary
Virtual PC 7 for Mac
Connectix and Microsoft PowerPC x86 Mac OS X Windows, OS/2, Linux Proprietary
VirtualLogix VLX
VirtualLogix ARM, TI DSP C6000, x86, PowerPC Same as host No host OS Linux, Windows XP, C5, VxWorks, Nucleus, DSP/BIOS, proprietary Proprietary
Virtual Server 2005 R2
Connectix and Microsoft x86, x86-64 x86, x86-64 Windows Server 2003, 2008, XP (Requires IIS) Windows NT, 2000, 2003, 2008, Linux (Red Hat, SUSE, Ubuntu) Proprietary
Synopsys (CoWare) Virtual Platform
CoWare x86, x86-64, SPARC v9 Devices including (multi) cores from ARM, MIPS, PowerPC, Toshiba MeP, Renesas SH, Texas Instruments, Tensilica, ZSP Windows, Linux, Solaris Depends on guest CPU; includes: Linux (various flavors), µITRON (various flavors), Windows CE, Symbian, more Proprietary
Virtuozzo
SWsoft, now Virtuozzo Inc x86, IA-64, x86-64 x86, IA-64, x86-64 Linux, Windows Linux, Windows Proprietary
VMware ESX Server
VMware x86, x86-64 x86, x86-64 No host OS Windows, Linux, Solaris, FreeBSD, OSx86 (as FreeBSD), virtual appliances, Netware, OS/2, SCO, BeOS, Haiku, Darwin, others: runs arbitrary OS[a] Proprietary
VMware ESXi
VMware x86, x86-64 x86, x86-64 No host OS Same as VMware ESX Server Proprietary
VMware Fusion
VMware x86, x86-64 x86, x86-64 macOS Same as VMware ESX Server Proprietary
VMware Server
VMware x86, x86-64 x86, x86-64 Windows, Linux Same as VMware ESX Server Proprietary
VMware Workstation
VMware x86-64[b] x86, x86-64 Windows, Linux Same as VMware ESX Server Proprietary
VMware Player, later VMware Workstation Player
VMware x86-64[c] x86, x86-64 Windows, Linux Same as VMware ESX Server Proprietary, free for personal non-commercial use[10][11]
Wind River Hypervisor
Wind River x86, x86-64, PowerPC, ARM Same as host No host OS Linux, VxWorks, unmodified guests (including MS Windows and RTOSes such ach OSE, QNX and others), bare metal virtual board Proprietary
Xen
Xensource, Now Citrix Systems x86, x86-64, ARM, IA-64 (inactive), PowerPC (inactive) Same as host GNU/Linux, Unix-like GNU/Linux, FreeBSD, MiniOS, NetBSD, Solaris, Windows 7/XP/Vista/Server 2008 (requires Intel VT-x (Vanderpool) or AMD-V (Pacifica)-capable CPU), Plan 9 GNU GPLv2 +
XenServer
By Citrix Systems x86, x86-64, ARM, IA-64 (inactive), PowerPC (inactive) Same as host No host OS GNU/Linux, FreeBSD, MiniOS, NetBSD, Solaris, Windows 7/XP/Vista/Server 2008 (with Intel VT-x or AMD-V), Plan 9 GNU GPLv2 +
XtratuM
Universidad Politecnica de Valencia x86, x86; SPARC v8 LEON2/3 Same as host No host OS GPOS: Linux, RTOS: PartiKle, RTEMS GPL
z/VM
IBM z/Architecture z/Architecture, z/VM does not run on predecessor mainframes No host OS, itself (single or multiple levels/versions deep; e.g., VM/ESA running in z/VM 4.4 in z/VM 5.2 in z/VM 5.1.) Linux on zSeries, z/OS, z/VSE, z/TPF, z/VM, VM/CMS, MUSIC/SP, OpenSolaris for System z, predecessors Proprietary
z LPARs
IBM z/Architecture z/Architecture Integrated in firmware of System z mainframes Linux on zSeries, z/OS, z/VSE, z/TPF, z/VM, MUSIC/SP, and predecessors Proprietary
Name
Creator
Host CPU
Guest CPU
Host OS(s)
Guest OS(s)
License
Features[edit]
Name
Guest OS SMP available
Runs arbitrary OS
Supported guest OS drivers
Method of operation
Typical use
Speed relative to host OS
Commercial support available
Containers, or Zones
Yes, over 500-way on current systems No Uses native device drivers Operating system-level virtualization Server consolidation with workload isolation, single workload containment, hosting, dev/test/prod Near native Yes
Hyper-V Server 2008 R2
Yes, up to 4 VCPUs per VM Yes Yes Virtualization Server consolidation, service continuity, dev/test, desktop virtualization, cloud computing Up to near native[citation needed][3] Yes
OpenVZ
Yes No Compatible Operating system-level virtualization Virtualized server isolation Up to near native[citation needed][4] Yes
KVM
Yes[12] Yes Yes AMD-V and Intel-VT-x Virtualized server isolation, server/desktop consolidation, software development, cloud computing, other purposes Up to near native[citation needed][5] Yes[13]
Linux-VServer
Yes No Compatible Operating system-level virtualization Virtualized server isolation and security, server consolidation, cloud computing Up to near native[citation needed][6] Yes
Oracle VM Server for x86
Yes Yes Yes Paravirtualization and hardware virtualization Server consolidation and security, enterprise and business deployment Up to near native[citation needed] Yes
Oracle VM Server for SPARC (LDoms)
Yes Yes, but needs porting[14] Yes Paravirtualization and hardware virtualization Server consolidation and security, enterprise and business deployment Up to near native[citation needed] Yes
OVPsim
Yes Yes ? Full system simulation with optional component virtualization Software development (early, embedded), advanced debug for single and multicore software, compiler and other tool development, computer architecture research, hobbyist Depends on target architecture (full and slow hardware emulation for guests incompatible with host)[citation needed] Yes, with commercial license from Imperas[15]
PikeOS
Yes Yes, but modifications required as paravirtualization is used Yes Paravirtualization Safety and security critical embedded systems. Up to near native[citation needed] Yes
ScaleMP vSMP Foundation
Yes, up to 8,192 CPUs and 64 TB per VM[citation needed] Yes Yes Virtualization Server consolidation, Cloud computing ? Yes
Simics
Yes Yes Yes Full system simulation of processors, MMUs, devices, disks, memories, networks, etc. Software development, advanced debug for single and multicore software, compiler and other tool development, computer architecture research, bug transportation, automated testing, system architecture, long-term support of safety-critical systems, early hardware availability, virtual prototyping Depends on host machine and target architecture. Runs at near-native speeds for x86-on-x86 using VT-x, cross-simulation of other architectures can be faster or slower than real-time depending on how fast the target is and how big the target is (number of processors, number of target machines, and how much the simulation can be parallelized) Yes
Sun xVM Server
Yes Yes Yes Paravirtualization and porting or hardware virtualization Servers, Development Up to near native[citation needed] Yes
SVISTA 2004
No ? ? ? Hobbyist, Developer, Business workstation ? ?
TRANGO
Yes Yes[7] Yes Paravirtualization and porting or hardware virtualization Mob. phone, STB, routers, etc. Near native[8][citation needed] ?
User Mode Linux
? No special guest kernel+modules required Porting Developer (as a separate machine for a server or with X11 networking) Non-significantly slower than native [9] (all calls to kernel are proxied)[citation needed] ?
OKL4 Microvisor
Yes Yes, (either with para-virtualization or HW virtualization) Yes Paravirtualization, Hardware assisted virtualization Mobile, embedded, security, safety critical, networking, legacy OS, etc. Near native Yes
Oracle VirtualBox
Yes Yes Yes Virtualization Business workstation, server consolidation, service continuity, developer, hobbyist Up to near native[citation needed] Yes (with commercial license)
Virtual Iron 3.1
Yes, up to 8 way Yes Yes Native virtualization Server consolidation, service continuity, dev/test ? Yes
Virtual PC 2007
No Yes Yes Virtualization, guest calls trapping where supported Hobbyist, Developer, Business workstation Up to near native[citation needed] with virtual machine additions ?
Windows Virtual PC
Yes Yes Yes Hardware virtualization Developer, Business workstation, support for Compatibility with Windows XP applications Up to near native[citation needed] with virtual machine additions No
Virtual PC 7 for Mac
No Yes Yes dynamic recompilation (guest calls trapping where supported) Hobbyist, Developer, Business workstation Slow[citation needed] ?
Virtual Server 2005 R2
No Yes Yes Virtualization (guest calls trapping where supported) Server, server farm Up to near native with virtual machine additions but slower than with hypervisor due to proxied calls[citation needed] ?
CoWare Virtual Platform
Yes Yes Yes ( Same compiled Software image as for the real device) Full-system virtualization (Processor Core ISA + Hardware + External connections) Early embedded software development and integration (from driver to application), Multi-core software debugging and optimization Depending on the system characteristics and the software itself, ranges from faster than real time to slow[citation needed]. Yes
Virtuozzo
Yes No Compatible Operating system-level virtualization Server consolidation, service continuity, disaster recovery, service providers Up to near native[citation needed] Yes
VMware ESXi Server 5.5 (vSphere)
Yes, add-on, up to 64 way No Yes Virtualization Server consolidation, service continuity, dev/test, cloud computing, business critical applications, Infrastructure as a Service IaaS Up to near native[citation needed] Yes
VMware ESX Server 4.0 (vSphere)
Yes, add-on, up to 8 way Yes Yes Virtualization Server consolidation, service continuity, dev/test, cloud computing Up to near native[citation needed] Yes
VMware ESX Server 3.0
Yes, add-on, up to 4 way Yes Yes Virtualization Server consolidation, service continuity, dev/test Up to near native[citation needed] Yes
VMware ESX Server 2.5.3
Yes, add-on, 2 way Yes Yes Virtualization Server consolidation, service continuity, dev/test Up to near native[citation needed] Yes
VMware Fusion
Yes Yes Yes Virtualization Hobbyist, Developer, Tester, Business workstation Up to near native[citation needed] Yes
VMware Server
Yes (2-way) Yes Yes Virtualization Server/desktop consolidation, dev/test Up to near native[citation needed] Yes
VMware Workstation
Yes (2-way) Yes Yes Paravirtualization (VMI) and virtualization Technical professional, advanced dev/test, trainer Up to near native[citation needed] Yes
VMware Player
Yes[16] Yes Yes Virtualization Technical professional, advanced dev/test, trainer, end user on prebuilt machines Up to near native[citation needed] No
Xen
Yes, v4.0.0: up to 128 VCPUs per VM No Yes Paravirtualization and porting or hardware virtualization Virtualized server isolation, server/desktop consolidation, software development, cloud computing, other purposes. Xen powers most public cloud services and many hosting services, such as Amazon Web Services, Rackspace Hosting and Linode. Up to native[17] Yes
XenServer
Yes Yes Yes Paravirtualization and porting or hardware virtualization Virtualized server isolation, server/desktop consolidation, software development, cloud computing, other purposes. Xen powers most public cloud services and many hosting services, such as Amazon Web Services, Rackspace Hosting and Linode. Up to native[17] Yes
XtratuM
Yes No Yes Paravirtualization Embedded, safety critical, secure ? Yes
z/VM
Yes, both real and virtual (guest perceives more CPUs than installed), incl. dynamic CPU provisioning and reassignment Yes Yes, but not required Virtualization (among first systems to provide hardware assists) Servers Near native[10] Yes
z LPARs
Yes, both real and virtual (guest perceives more CPUs than installed), incl. dynamic CPU provisioning and reassignment; up to 64 real cores Yes Yes, but not required Microcode and hardware hypervisor Servers Native: System z machines always run with at least one LPAR Yes
Name
Guest OS SMP available
Runs arbitrary OS
Supported guest OS drivers
Method of operation
Typical use
Speed relative to host OS
Commercial support available
^ Providing any virtual environment usually requires some overhead of some type or another. Native usually means that the virtualization technique does not do any CPU level virtualization (like Bochs), which executes code more slowly than when it is directly executed by a CPU. Some other products such as VMWare and Virtual PC use similar approaches to Bochs and QEMU, however they use a number of advanced techniques to shortcut most of the calls directly to the CPU (similar to the process that JIT compiler uses) to bring the speed to near native in most cases. However, some products such as coLinux, Xen, z/VM (in real mode) do not suffer the cost of CPU-level slowdowns as the CPU-level instructions are not proxied or executing against an emulated architecture since the guest OS or hardware is providing the environment for the applications to run under. However access to many of the other resources on the system, such as devices and memory may be proxied or emulated in order to broker those shared services out to all the guests, which may cause some slow downs as compared to running outside of virtualization.
^ OS-level virtualization is described as "native" speed, however some groups have found overhead as high as 3% for some operations, but generally figures come under 1%, so long as secondary effects do not appear.
^ See[18] for a paper comparing performance of paravirtualization approaches (e.g. Xen) with OS-level virtualization
^ Requires patches/recompiling.
^ Exceptional for lightweight, paravirtualized, single-user VM/CMS interactive shell: largest customers run several thousand users on even single prior models. For multiprogramming OSes like Linux on zSeries and z/OS that make heavy use of native supervisor state instructions, performance will vary depending on nature of workload but is near native. Hundreds into the low thousands of Linux guests are possible on a single machine for certain workloads.
Image type compatibility[edit]
Name
floppy
ISO
folders on host
physical disk / device
raw / flat (whole disk)
raw / flat (partition)
hdd (Parallels)
QCOW (QEMU)
QCOW2 (QEMU)
QED (QEMU)
VDI (VirtualBox)
VHD (Connectix Virtual PC)
VHDX (Hyper-V)
VMDK (VMware)
Bochs[19]
Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No No No No No Yes No v3, v4
Containers, or Zones
? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
Cooperative Linux (coLinux)
? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
CHARON
? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
Denali
? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
DOSBox
Yes Yes Yes ? Yes ? No No No No No No No No
DOSEMU
? ? Yes ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
FreeBSD Jail
No No Yes No No No No No No No No No No No
GXemul
? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
Hercules
? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
Hyper-V (2008 R2)
? Yes ? Yes ? ? ? ? ? ? No Yes No No
Hyper-V (2012)
? Yes ? Yes ? ? ? ? ? ? No Yes Yes No
Hyper-V (2012 R2)
Yes Yes ? Yes ? ? ? ? ? ? No Yes Yes No
iCore Virtual Accounts
? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
Integrity Virtual Machines
? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
JPC (Virtual Machine)
Yes Yes Yes ? Yes ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
KVM
Yes Yes ? Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes ? ? Yes
Linux-VServer
? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
LynxSecure
? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
LXC
? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
OpenVZ
? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
Oracle VM Server for x86
? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
Oracle VM Server for SPARC (LDoms)
? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
OVPsim
? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
Parallels Desktop for Mac
? ? ? ? ? ? Yes ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
Parallels Workstation
? ? ? ? ? ? Yes ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
PearPC
No Yes No Yes Yes No No No No No No No No No
PikeOS
? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
PowerVM
? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
QEMU
? ? ? ? Yes Yes ? Yes Yes ? ? ? ? ?
QEMU w/ kqemu module
? ? ? ? ? ? ? Yes No No ? ? ? ?
QEMU w/ qvm86 module
? ? ? Yes Yes ? ? Yes Yes ? ? ? ? Yes
QuickTransit
? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
ScaleMP vSMP Foundation
? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
SIMH
? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
Simics
? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
Sun xVM Server
? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
SVISTA 2004
? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
TRANGO
? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
User Mode Linux
? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
VirtualBox
Yes Yes No Yes[20] Yes[20] Yes[20] up to v2 Yes read-only Yes Yes Yes Can read existing disks, but not create new disks. Yes
Virtual Iron 3.1
? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
Virtual PC 2007
Yes Yes ? ? ? ? No No No No No Yes No No
Windows Virtual PC
Yes Yes ? ? ? ? No No No No No Yes Yes No
Virtual PC 7 for Mac
Yes Yes No No No No No No No No No Yes No No
VirtualLogix VLX
? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
Virtual Server 2005 R2
? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
Synopsys (CoWare) Virtual Platform
? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
Virtuozzo
? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
VMware ESX Server
? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
VMware ESXi
Yes Yes No Yes No No No No No No No No No Yes
VMware Fusion
? Yes ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Yes
VMware Server
? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Yes
VMware Workstation
Yes Yes ? Yes ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Yes
VMware Player
? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Yes
Wind River Hypervisor
? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
Wind River VxWorks MILS Platform
? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
Xen
Yes Yes ? Yes Yes[21] ? ? Yes[21] ? ? ? Yes[21] ? ?
XenServer
Yes Yes ? Yes Yes[21] ? ? Yes[21] ? ? ? Yes[21] ? ?
XtratuM
? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
z/VM
? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
z LPARs
? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
Name
floppy
ISO
folders on host
physical disk / device
raw / flat (whole disk)
raw / flat (partition)
hdd (Parallels)
QCOW (QEMU)
QCOW2 (QEMU)
QED (QEMU)
VDI (VirtualBox)
VHD (Connectix Virtual PC)
VHDX (Hyper-V)
VMDK (VMware)
Other features[edit]
Name
Can boot an OS on another disk partition as guest
USB support
GUI
Live memory allocation
3D acceleration
Snapshots per VM
Snapshot of running system
Live migration
Shared folders
Shared clipboard
PCI passthrough
KVM
Yes Yes Yes[22] Yes Yes (via AIGLX) Yes Yes[23] Yes[24] Yes
User Mode Linux
Yes No No No No No Yes N/A
Containers, or Zones
Yes Yes Yes Yes Not needed Yes[25] Yes No Yes Not needed Not needed
DosBox
No No SVN builds only No Glide (SVN builds only) No Yes No No No No
Oracle VirtualBox (formerly OSE, GPLv2)
Yes USB 1.1 only Yes Yes No Yes branched[26] Yes Yes No No No
Oracle VirtualBox with Extension Pack and Guest Additions (PUEL)
Yes Yes Yes Yes OpenGL 2.0 and Direct3D 8/9[27] Yes branched[26] Yes Yes Yes Yes Linux only[28]
Oracle VM Server for SPARC (LDoms)
Yes USB 2.0 Yes Yes No Yes No Yes Yes No Yes
OKL4 Microvisor
Yes Yes VMs only Yes Yes No Static assignment
Virtual Iron 4.2
Yes
Virtual PC 2007
No No Yes No No No Yes Yes
Windows Virtual PC
No partially Yes No No No Yes Yes
VirtualPC 7 for Mac
No Yes Yes Yes No No Yes Yes
Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 R2
No Yes No No ? Yes No
Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 R2
Yes Partial support over remote desktop connections [11] Yes Yes DirectX 9.0c [12] (via RemoteFX) Yes branched Yes Yes No
Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2012 R2
Yes Yes Yes Yes DirectX 9.0c [13] (via RemoteFX) Yes branched Yes Yes No
Virtuozzo
Yes Yes Yes Yes No Yes
VMware ESX Server 3.0 atp
Yes No ? Yes Yes No
VMware ESX Server 2.5.3
Yes No No
VMware ESX Server 4.0 (vSphere)
Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes ? Yes Yes Yes[29]
VMware Fusion 2.0
Yes Yes Yes No DirectX 9 Shader model 2 No No
VMware Server
Yes Yes Yes Yes No 1 Yes No Yes Yes
VMware Workstation 5.5
Yes Yes Yes Yes Experimental support for DirectX 8; also supported with VMGL[30] Yes branched Yes No Yes Yes No
VMware Workstation 6.0
Yes Yes Yes Yes Experimental support for DirectX 8; Also supported with VMGL[30] Yes branched Yes No Yes Yes No
VMware Workstation 7.0 and 8.0
Yes Yes Yes Yes Support for DirectX 9.0c Shader Model 3 and OpenGL 2.13D.[31] Yes branched Yes No Yes Yes No
VMware Player
Yes Yes Yes Yes supported with VMGL[30] No No No Yes No
Wind River hypervisor
Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No
Wind River VxWorks MILS Platform
Yes
Xen
Yes Yes[32] Yes[22] Yes Supported with VMGL[30] ? Yes Yes Yes
XenServer
Yes Yes[22] Yes Supported with VMGL[30] Yes Yes Yes Yes
z/VM
Yes Not applicable Yes (zURM/HMC) Yes Not applicable Yes (2011) Not applicable Not applicable
z LPARs
Yes Not applicable Yes (HMC) Yes Not applicable Yes (2007) Not applicable Not applicable
Name
Can boot an OS on another disk partition as guest
USB
GUI
Live memory allocation
3D acceleration
Snapshots per VM
Snapshot of running system
Live migration
Shared folders
Shared clipboard
PCI passthrough
^ Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 and Windows 7 SP1 have limited support for redirecting the USB protocol over RDP using RemoteFX.[33]
^ Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 adds accelerated graphics support for certain editions of Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 and Windows 7 SP1 using RemoteFX.[34][35]
Restrictions[edit]
This table is meant to outline restrictions in the software dictated by licensing or capabilities.
Name
Maximum host cores / CPUs
Maximum host memory
Maximum host disk volume size
Maximum number of guest VM running
Maximum number of logical CPU per VM guest
Maximum amount of memory per VM guest
Maximum number of SCSI + IDE disks per VM guest
Maximum disk size per VM guest
Containers, or Zones
No theoretical limit (largest SPARC has 384 physical cores) 32 TB (largest SPARC) No limit 8191 No limit No limit No limit No limit
VMware Player 4.0[36]
4 cores[d][37] No limit N/A ? 8 8 GB (32-bit); 64 GB (64-bit) ? 2 TB
VMware Server 2.0[38]
16 CPUs No limit N/A 64 2 8 GB 4 IDE; 60 SCSI 950 GB
VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi) 4.1[39]
160 logical cores 1 TB 2 TB minus 512 bytes 320 8 255 GB 4 IDE; 60 SCSI 2 TB minus 512 bytes
VMware vSphere ESXi 5.0[40]
160 logical cores 2 TB 64 TB 512 32 1 TB 4 IDE; 60 SCSI 2 TB minus 512 bytes
VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi 5.5) (free)[41]
16 NUMA Nodes / 320 logical CPUs 4 TB Depending on filesystem 512 8 1 TB 4 IDE; 60 SCSI 62 TB
VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi 5.5)[42]
16 NUMA Nodes / 320 logical CPUs 4 TB Depending on filesystem 512 64 1 TB 4 IDE; 60 SCSI 62 TB
VirtualBox 4.1.x
256 logical cores (Windows version limited to 64)[43] No limit No limit No limit[44] 32 1 TB[45] 4 IDE; no limit for SATA, SCSI, SAS 2 TB[46]
Microsoft Hyper-V Server R2[47]
64 cores / 8 CPUs[48] 1 TB No limit 384 4 64 GB 4 IDE; 256 SCSI 2 TB
Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2012[49]
320 cores / 64 CPUs 4 TB No limit 1024 64 1 TB 4 IDE; 256 SCSI 64 TB
Note: No limit means no enforced limit. For example, a VM with 1 TB of memory cannot fit in a host with only 8 GB memory and no memory swap disk, so it will have a limit of 8 GB physically.
See also[edit]
Information Technology portal
Software portal
List of computer system emulators
Comparison of application virtualization software
Popek and Goldberg virtualization requirements
Virtual DOS machine
x86 virtualization
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Oracle VM Server for x86
XenClient
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bhyve
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Win4Lin
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cgroups
lmctfy
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OpenVZ
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Workload Partitions
Desktop
virtualization
Citrix XenApp
Citrix XenDesktop
Remote Desktop Services
VMware Horizon View
Ulteo Open Virtual Desktop
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virtualization
Ceedo
Citrix XenApp
Dalvik
InstallFree
Microsoft App-V
Remote Desktop Services
Symantec Workspace Virtualization
Turbo
VMware ThinApp
ZeroVM
Network
virtualization
Distributed Overlay Virtual Ethernet (DOVE)
NVGRE
Open vSwitch
Virtual security switch
Virtual Extensible LAN (VXLAN)
See also: List of emulators
Notes[edit]
Jump up ^ Can run a guest OS without modifying it, and hence is generally able to run any OS that could run on a physical machine the VM simulates.
Jump up ^ Older versions of VMware Workstation support x86.
Jump up ^ Older versions of VMware Player/VMware Workstation Player support x86.
Jump up ^ Version 3.0.0 and earlier allowed 8 cores.
References[edit]
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Jump up ^ "3.4. Compiling Bochs". Bochs.sourceforge.net. Retrieved 2015-02-22.
Jump up ^ "PowerPC - KVM". Linux-kvm.org. Retrieved 2015-02-22.
Jump up ^ "Development Preview of KVM Virtualization on Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server for ARM". redhat.com. Retrieved 2017-05-15.
^ Jump up to: a b "QEMU Official OS Support List Version 2.0". Claunia.com. Retrieved 2015-02-22.
Jump up ^ Oracle VM VirtualBox User Manual, Chapter 3: Configuring virtual machines | Mac OS X guests
Jump up ^ "virtualbox.org • View topic - Theo de Raadt discourages VirtualBox usage." forums.virtualbox.org. Retrieved 2017-10-15.
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Jump up ^ "VMware Player Pro FAQs: Create and run virtual machines | United States". Vmware.com. 2014-10-17. Retrieved 2015-02-22.
Jump up ^ [1] Archived 15 June 2011 at the Wayback Machine.
Jump up ^ "Main Page - KVM". Linux-kvm.org. Retrieved 2013-10-08.
Jump up ^ Look at RedHat or Novell for details
Jump up ^ Logical Domains#Supported guest operating systems
Jump up ^ "Welcome to". Imperas. 2014-03-12. Retrieved 2015-02-22.
Jump up ^ [2] Archived 2008-08-10 at the Wayback Machine.
^ Jump up to: a b "A Performance Comparison of Hypervisors for Cloud Computing". Digitalcommons.unf.edu. Retrieved 2015-02-22.
Jump up ^ Soltesz, S.; et al. (2007). "Container-based Operating System Virtualization" (PDF). EuroSys. ACM SIGOPS.
Jump up ^ "8.19. Disk Image Modes". Bochs.sourceforge.net. Retrieved 2013-10-08.
^ Jump up to: a b c "Chapter 9. Advanced topics". Virtualbox.org. Retrieved 2013-10-08.
^ Jump up to: a b c d e f "Xen blktap2 driver". Retrieved 2014-02-03.
^ Jump up to: a b c "Virtual Machine Manager". Retrieved 2010-02-20.
Jump up ^ "Sheepdog is a distributed storage system for KVM". Retrieved 2010-05-20.
Jump up ^ "KVM Migration". Retrieved 2010-05-20.
Jump up ^ "beadm in Non-Global Zones - Creating and Administering Oracle® Solaris 11.2 Boot Environments". oracle.com. 11 November 2014.
^ Jump up to: a b "VirtualBox Changelog 3.1". Archived from the original on 28 September 2010. Retrieved 1 October 2010.
Jump up ^ "VirtualBox Changelog 3.0". Retrieved 2009-06-30.
Jump up ^ "VirtualBox manual: PCI passthrough". Retrieved 2012-05-12.
Jump up ^ "VMware VMDirectPath I/O". Retrieved 2012-05-12.
^ Jump up to: a b c d e "VMGL (formerly Xen-GL)". Archived from the original on 2007-11-04.
Jump up ^ "VMware Workstation Features, Multiple OS, Run Linux on Windows - United States". Vmware.com. Retrieved 2013-10-08.
Jump up ^ "Xen USB Passthrough". Retrieved April 12, 2018.
Jump up ^ "Configuring USB Device Redirection with Microsoft RemoteFX Step-by-Step Guide". Technet.microsoft.com. 2011-02-16. Retrieved 2013-10-08.
Jump up ^ "Microsoft RemoteFX". Technet.microsoft.com. 2011-02-23. Retrieved 2013-10-08.
Jump up ^ "Hardware Considerations for RemoteFX". Technet.microsoft.com. 2011-02-08. Retrieved 2013-10-08.
Jump up ^ "Getting Started with VMware Player" (PDF). Vmware.com. Retrieved 2015-02-22.
Jump up ^ "Folding@Home - VMWare Player 3.0 and Folding Bigadv Support". LinuxForge.net. Retrieved 2013-10-08.
Jump up ^ "VMware Server User's Guide" (PDF). Vmware.com. Retrieved 2015-02-22.
Jump up ^ "Configuration Maximums : Sphere 4.1" (PDF). Vmware.com. Retrieved 2015-02-22.
Jump up ^ "Configuration Maximums : Sphere 5.0" (PDF). Vmware.com. Retrieved 2015-02-22.
Jump up ^ "Free Virtualization with VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi)" (in Dutch). Vmware.com. Retrieved 2014-01-17.
Jump up ^ "Configuration Maximums VMware® vSphere 5.5" (PDF). VMWare Inc. 2013-10-30. Retrieved 2013-12-23.
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Jump up ^ "Oracle revs VirtualBox, mushrooms memory : Virtual iron more supple than real iron". Theregister.co.uk. Retrieved 2013-10-08.
Jump up ^ The command-line version allows a virtual disk image of more than 2 TB.
Jump up ^ "Requirements and Limits for Virtual Machines and Hyper-V in Windows Server 2008 R2". Retrieved 2015-02-10.
Jump up ^ Protalinski, Emil (2009-09-01). "Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 arrives for free". Ars Technica. Retrieved 2013-10-08.
Jump up ^ "Hyper-V Scalability in Windows Server 2012". Technet.microsoft.com. Retrieved 2015-02-22.
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Joseph Francis Tribbiani
Friends character
Portrayed by
Matt LeBlanc
Duration
1994–2006
First appearance
Friends:
"The Pilot"
(episode 1.01)
Last appearance
Joey:
"Joey and the Wedding"
(episode. 2.22)
Created by
David Crane
Marta Kauffman
Kevin S. Bright
Spin-off
appearances
Joey (2004–06)
Profile
Other names
Ken Adams
Occupation
Actor
Santa Claus
Christmas elf
Entry-level data processor
Museum tour guide
Waiter
Cologne sampler
Christmas tree salesman
[show]Family
Father
Joseph Tribbiani Sr.
Mother
Gloria Tribbiani
Sisters
Gina Tribbiani
Dina Tribbiani
Mary Angela Tribbiani
Mary Therese Tribbiani
Veronica Tribbiani
Cookie Tribbiani
Tina Tribbiani
Grandmothers
Nonna
Nonnie
Nephews
Michael Tribbiani
Joseph Francis "Joey" Tribbiani, Jr. is a fictional character from the NBC sitcoms Friends and its spin-off Joey, portrayed by Matt LeBlanc.[1] An Italian-American struggling actor, he lives in New York City with his roommate and best friend, Chandler Bing, and hangs out in a tight-knit group of friends - Chandler Bing, Ross Geller, Monica Geller-Bing, Rachel Green and Phoebe Buffay.
Joey was presumably born in 1968 as he talks about being 13 in 1981.[2] He comes from an Italian American family of eight children. His father Joseph Tribbiani, Sr. (Robert Costanzo), is a pipefitter and his mother's name is Gloria (Brenda Vaccaro). Joey has seven sisters: Mary Therese (Mimi Lieber) aka Mary Teresa Christina Ricci, Mary Angela (Holly Gagnier), Dina (Marla Sokoloff), Gina (Drea de Matteo), Tina (Lisa Maris),[3] Veronica (Dena Miceli),[3] and Cookie (Alex Meneses). Joey is from Queens, New York. As a child, he was extremely accident prone.[4] He also had an imaginary friend, Maurice, who was a space cowboy.[5]
Joey is portrayed as promiscuous, and dim-witted, but good-natured, as well as very loyal, caring, and protective of his friends. He's a food-loving womanizer who has had the most luck with dates than any of the other group members. In contrast to his "ladies man" personality, he has also a marked childish side. He enjoys playing video games and foosball. He loves sandwiches and pizza. He is a big fan of Baywatch. He has a Cabbage Patch Kid which he named Alicia May Emory and soft toy penguin named Huggsy. He named his TV as in Stevie and his chair as in Rosita. As a struggling actor, he is constantly looking for work. He was ordained as a minister in "The One with the Truth About London", and officiated at both Monica and Chandler and Phoebe and Mike's weddings. It is revealed in The One After "I Do" that Joey has size seven feet, which he is secretive and defensive about. He also has a soft toy penguin named Hugsy (his "bedtime penguin pal"), of whom he is very fond and does not like to share. He also doesn't like sharing food and has difficulty with simple mathematics (evidenced by his using a calculator to add together 500+500). In sports, Joey likes the Los Angeles Dodgers and the New York Yankees in baseball, Los Angeles Clippers and New York Knicks in basketball, New York Giants and New York Jets in football, and the Detroit Red Wings and New York Rangers in ice hockey.
Contents
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1 Appearances
2 Joey
3 References
4 External links
Appearances[edit]
Joey is a member of the Screen Actors Guild,[6] having refused to follow in his father's footsteps and become a pipe fitter.[7] He started his acting profession doing stage work, introduced in the show's pilot episode by Monica and Chandler having seen Joey in a production of Pinocchio. Sometime prior to the start of the series, Joey also had appeared in a porn film, as a fully clothed extra.[8] Joey also mentioned appearing in a play with trolls before getting the leading role of Sigmund Freud in the musical play Freud! where he was first spotted by his talent agent Estelle Leonard. She immediately got him a film role in the same episode as Al Pacino's "butt double" — a speechless role he later lost due to taking the part too seriously.[9] Monica and Chandler also once discussed having seen Joey in a version of Macbeth, in which he was unable to pronounce most of the words.
Joey becomes an "actor-slash-model" when he appears on print ads for the NYC Free Clinic, as a man named "Mario" who has a Venereal disease.[10] He also did an infomercial for a device that lets you pour milk out of milk cartons; he played "Kevin", a man who had extreme difficulty opening the cartons without the use of the device. ("Kevin" also inadvertently choked on a cookie during the show.). This haunted him again when he appeared in the play 'The King', where he was made fun of due to choking on a cookie.
In Season Two, Joey continued his stage work, appearing as "The King" in a poorly reviewed (and never-named) play. Published reviews of his performance claimed he was "disturbingly unskilled" and that he achieved "brilliant new levels of sucking" in a "mediocre play" with "mindless, adolescent direction".[11] Only days after these reviews came out, Joey gets his big break when he lands his first major role as Dr. Drake Ramoray on the soap opera Days of Our Lives. He had initially gone in to read for a one-shot role as a cab driver; it is implied that he got the recurring role of Ramoray by sleeping with the casting director.[11] While still playing Ramoray, he also appears in a bit role as a dead man in the film Outbreak 2: The Virus Takes Manhattan, starring Jean-Claude Van Damme.
Several episodes later, Joey costs himself the Days of our Lives gig when during an interview with Soap Opera Digest, he lies claiming that he makes up his own lines. This angers the show's writers, who out of spite, "kill off" his character by having Dr. Ramoray fall down an elevator shaft. Joey takes this very hard and admits that his role on Days was the best thing that ever happened to him.[12]
He goes back to stage acting in Season Three appearing in a play called Boxing Day opposite love interest Kate Miller. The play seems to start out as a conventional drama but ends with Joey's character "Victor" is taken from his apartment by aliens.[13] In Season Four, he lands a small one-scene movie role as a cop, playing his scene opposite Charlton Heston.[14]
Joey had some bad luck in terms of his acting career. In Season Five, he is cast in the independent film Shutter Speed, but it is shut down before filming began in Las Vegas.[15] He is also fired from a Burger King commercial. He filmed a role in a Law & Order episode that was cut from the completed episode—Joey was only "seen" as a corpse in a body bag.
In seasons 6 and 7, he lands a starring role as Detective 'Mac' Machiavelli in a very short-lived, and very bad cop show called Mac and C.H.E.E.S.E, which Chandler described as "one of the worst things ever... and not just on TV." Joey had high hopes for the series, however Mac and C.H.E.E.S.E was canceled halfway through its first season.[16]
In Seasons 7, Joey auditions for the role of Dr. Striker Ramoray, a new character on "Days of Our Lives" and Drake Ramoray's brother but he doesn't get that role. Eventually, Joey's luck turns when he gets back his role as Dr. Drake Ramoray and even nominated for an award for Best Returning Character, first as a character in coma,[16] then revived through a brain transplant with another character Jessica Lockhart, (played by Susan Sarandon).[17]
In Season 7 he later replaces Susan Sarandon as Dr. Drake Jessica Ramoray. Later in the spin-off Joey, it turns out he loses his Role as Dr. Drake Ramoray and has to again hunt for a new job.
Later in season 7, Joey landed a supporting role as "Tony", a soldier, in a major film opposite an Oscar-nominated actor named Richard Crosby (Gary Oldman). The film was a World War I period film entitled Over There.[18]
Joey is also briefly employed at Central Perk as a waiter. Facing a dry spell in his career as an actor, Joey is persuaded by Gunther, the manager, to take a job serving coffee. At first Joey tries to hide his new job from his friends, but they eventually figure it out. He does not like the work but, true to his nature, soon finds a way to use his position to meet and ingratiate himself to attractive women by giving them free food, a practice to which Gunther quickly puts a stop. Joey doesn't take his job very seriously and spends a lot of his working hours sitting and talking to his friends. Eventually he is fired for closing the coffeehouse in the middle of the day to go to an audition while Gunther was running a personal errand. Rachel later persuaded Gunther to give Joey back his job, but once Joey found more steady acting jobs he eventually just stopped showing up. His absence was barely noticed. In a later episode, Joey realizes he forgot to tell Gunther he quit, to which Gunther replied that he would have eventually fired him anyway.[19]
Joey is also briefly a sperm donor for a medical experiment; at the end, the hospital would pay any donor $700. This was later mentioned when Monica goes to a sperm bank. Joey finds to his dismay that his sperm is not very popular.[20]
Some of Joey's other jobs have included selling Christmas trees, dressing as Santa Claus and as a Christmas elf,[21] working as a tour guide at the Museum of Natural History where Ross worked, offering perfume samples to customers at a department store, and as a Roman warrior at Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas.
He also worked at the restaurant "Alessandro's" where Monica was head chef, nicknaming himself "Dragon" while on the job. Monica hired him just so she could fire him to intimidate the other employees who paid Monica no respect, but he made a lot of tips and backed out of the deal, only to realize how important his getting fired was to Monica. He then set himself up to be fired the next day.
He spends one episode working with Chandler as an entry-level data processor. He treats the job like another acting role, in which he is "Joseph the Processing Guy" and creates a complex back-story for the character. Chandler begins to dislike the Joseph character when he starts showing up Chandler at work. Joey eventually leaves after Chandler pretends to sleep with Joey's "pretend wife".[22]
Prior to Monica and Chandler's wedding, when the two admitted that they were having trouble finding someone to perform the ceremony, Joey volunteered for the role, subsequently getting himself ordained over the Internet to entitle him to perform the marriage. He has apparently retained this role until Season Ten, when he performed the ceremony for Phoebe and Mike's wedding, claiming that priests are allowed to ride the subway for free (Although he states that the Bible must be read very carefully to identify the passage that permits this).
Joey is characterized as a simple-minded but good-natured womanizer who loves food. He particularly loves meatball sub sandwiches. When asked if he would give up sex or food he had trouble deciding and kept blurting out sex or food, eventually yelling "I want girls on bread!". In "The One with the Ride Along", he appears to be saving Ross from a putative gunshot, when it was actually his meatball sandwich that he was trying to save; it just happened to be next to Ross. He also loves the "Joey Special" — two pizzas. His greed when it comes to food is also shown in the episode "The One With the Birth Mother" where he refuses to call Sarah the next day. When Phoebe asks why, Joey explains how Sarah broke his golden commandment on their date - not to share food. Phoebe's shocked to say the least, but Rachel admits to her how this is who Joey is. Nonetheless, Phoebe makes Joey go out with Sarah again, making him order extra fries should the need arise. Joey does so, but Sarah really wants to dig in his seafood platter, making him drop his plate to the floor in the process. This makes him explain how "Joey doesn't share food", which she seems to understand. However, things change course when Joey wants to nibble at her chocolate torte. As he wouldn't share his food with her, she reciprocates and warns him not to touch any of her desserts while she wanders off to take a call. When she arrives, her dessert is pretty much gone; Joey, with chocolate torte all over his face, is at peace with himself, and admits that he's "not even sorry!". He is something of an idiot savant in general, but capable of good ideas when the situation arises; this is alluded to in the episode "The One Where Ross Dates a Student", when Chandler, referring to Joey, says "A hot girl's at stake and suddenly he's Rain Man" when Joey suggested Ross work out who among his students called him the 'hottie of the paleontology department' by comparing the handwriting of the note to the handwriting in the class essays. In another example, Joey made up an anecdote referred to as the "Europe story" or the "magic story"; apparently, anyone who hears it will immediately want to have sex with the teller. This is proven to be effective when Rachel successfully uses the story on Ross.[23]
Joey is extremely promiscuous, often relying on his catchphrase pickup line "How you doin'?". He regularly sleeps with attractive women, but can never seem to get into a committed relationship - judging from a conversation he had with Chandler at the latter's bachelor party he seems to regard marriage as depressing and restrictive. He sleeps with many of the interns and extras on shows on which he works. He has apparently been sexually active for a very long time; he undid a 16-year-old girl's bra when he was nine, slept with his teacher in the seventh grade, and had a "wild spring break" when he was 13. In the episode "The One With Joey's Interview", he slept with the interviewer (played by Sasha Alexander) so what he said about having a life and not watching soaps wasn't published in Soap Opera Digest.
While he is not very bright, Joey is a caring and kindhearted person. He let Rachel live with him when she was fighting with Ross, financially supported Monica and Chandler, and helped Phoebe find work when she was unemployed. He was willing to marry Phoebe and Rachel on the separate occasions he found out that each was pregnant. Joey is also the most physically powerful of the group, being able to easily push Ross over a couch with only one hand, and offering to go to the coffee house to intimidate two bullies into leaving Ross and Chandler alone.
He is a Stephen King fan, having read The Shining several times, as well as being a fan of the film adaptation of one of King's novels, Cujo. He also becomes a fan of the classic novel, Little Women after Rachel asks him to read it to see if it was better than The Shining.[24] Joey briefly mentions to the gang that Al Pacino is his idol.[9] Joey has the poster for the 1983 Al Pacino film Scarface in his bedroom and the same poster is seen in his house in Joey. Joey, Ross and Chandler are huge fans of Die Hard.[25]
He moved apartment(s) four times in the series. The first time, he moved to his own lavish apartment away from Chandler (with whom the psychotic Eddie moved in) after he got the role as Dr. Drake Ramoray on Days of Our Lives, though he moved back soon afterward due to his loss of the role. The other times were when he and Chandler moved into what is usually Monica's apartment, after winning it from her in a game in "The One with the Embryos". They were later forced back to their own apartment by the girls.
Although Joey dated several women in the series, very few of these relationships were ever particularly serious, his romantic partners rarely appearing for more than one episode. However, despite his great interest in women, Joey has made it clear more than once that his friends were more important to him; when his latest relationship, Janine, stated that she strongly disliked Monica and Chandler, Joey soon broke it off with her despite the fact that he had been trying to win her over for the previous four episodes, telling Janine that Monica and Chandler were like his family and he couldn't be with Janine if she didn't like them.
Joey was originally shunned by Chandler when he came in for a roommate interview, and Joey thought Chandler was gay. However, Mr. Heckles, another building resident, lied to Chandler's originally selected roommate, causing Chandler to have to go with his second choice roommate Joey (In "The One with the Flashback" set in 1993, Joey moved in 3 years before although in "The One with All the Thanksgivings" it shows that the gang knew Joey was Chandler's roommate in 1992 and he would have been his roommate for quite some time). Joey's first couple of days involved a brief, mutual attraction to Monica. This subsided and Chandler and Joey quickly became best friends as Joey's carefree lifestyle grew on Chandler.
Later in the series, they bought a chick and a duck together, whom Chandler had named Yasmine and Dick, respectively. A long-running gag depicted Joey and Chandler occasionally fighting with each other like an old married couple. Joey moved out temporarily when he found success playing Dr. Drake Ramoray on a soap opera, but soon moved back in after his character was dropped down an elevator shaft. At the end of the series, Chandler and Monica made it clear to Joey that their new house outside the city would have a room for him.
While Joey is best friends with Chandler, Ross is a close second (although Ross has been referred to as his best friend several times). At a time when Joey and Chandler had problems, when Chandler had kissed Joey's girlfriend, Joey stopped acting as Chandler's best friend and replaced him with Ross, although this only lasted until Chandler spent Thanksgiving in a box in order to show his remorse and apologize to him. Joey and Chandler have remained best friends ever since.
Furthermore, Joey and Ross share a moment in an episode after watching Die Hard all night. They fall asleep on Ross' couch, which is evidently enjoyed by Joey, as he tries to coerce Ross into more nap sessions with him. Also, earlier in the series, after much persuading by Joey, Ross gives in and kisses him to help him practice kissing men. In response, Joey replies that the audition was already over, he hadn't gotten the part, but the kiss was very well received.
The major development of their relationship outside the realm of normal male interaction was when Joey fell in love with Rachel, Ross's ex-girlfriend and the object of Ross's affections since ninth grade. When Joey goes on to tell Ross about it, he can't say it in his face and instead says that he loves his "friend's" ex-girlfriend. When asked if that "friend" (Ross) is a good guy, Joey honestly answers "Yeah... He's the best". Initially it causes a major rift, with Joey being apologetic, but when Ross sees Joey truly in love with Rachel he gives him the go ahead. Ross basically says that he's not okay with it but he wants to be, and the two's friendship deepens due to Joey's refusal to date Rachel unless Ross okays the deal. However, Joey and Rachel do not date long and later Joey encourages Ross to pursue Rachel in the season finale.
Joey and Monica are close friends often joking around with each other. Joey allowed Monica to hire and fire him to prove to her employees that she was not a pushover. When he discovered that Monica and Chandler had developed a romantic relationship, he agreed to keep it secret until the two were ready to reveal it to the rest of their group. In an episode where he sees how close Chandler and Monica are, he dreams of himself and Monica in the same way. This later causes him to act weird around Monica. Finally he reveals this to Chandler and Monica, its that he wants a relationship like that, but Monica finds it nice thinking Joey thought of them two together. He also called Chandler moments after suspecting Monica of having an affair with a mystery male he had heard in her apartment. When Monica and Chandler needed their Engagement Picture taken, Chandler could not smile. In the newspaper announcement, it showed the photo was of Monica and Joey.
Joey always enjoyed a close relationship with Monica, Rachel, and Phoebe; LeBlanc once speculated that Joey saw the girls as sisters more than potential romantic interests. However, the tension between Monica and Joey is at times fairly obvious and it is made clear that the two have a very close, almost intimate, relationship, though it is never consummated on the show.
According to DVD commentary of the pilot episode, Joey and Monica were initially meant to be the principal love connection of the show but was overshadowed by the Ross-Rachel relationship. In Episode 1.07 "The One with the Blackout", Phoebe blurted to Joey that Monica has a crush on him when he was moving in with Chandler. This idea was revisited in Season 7 when it is revealed that Monica initially meant to hit on Joey in London, and not Chandler. She states that it was because she was looking for something meaningless, never expecting to have found Chandler and fall in love with him. The concept of what their marriage would have been like was then envisioned by Phoebe and it consisted of Monica cooking all the time for a very fat Joey.
Phoebe is Joey's female best friend. They appear to understand each other. They are the only members of the group who lack a college education. Joey is Phoebe's best male friend; they have dinner together once a month to talk about the rest of the group and Joey like to be called 'Big daddy' by phoebe . Both characters show a softness for each other, even when joking or when they are upset with the others. In "The One with the Race Car Bed", it is implied that Phoebe can hear Joey's thoughts. In "The One With the Ride Along", she explains that "when the revolution comes, I will have to destroy you all...not you, Joey". In the episode "The One in Vegas", after Joey has said that no one will live in his hand shaped mansion, he adds "Except you Pheebs... You can live in the thumb."
When she was a surrogate mother for her brother's triplets and suddenly craved meat, Joey offered to eat no meat until the babies were born, to compensate for her consumption and, in a way, preserve her vegetarianism (no extra animals would have to be killed). In The One With All the Cheesecakes, it is shown that the two tried to meet once a month for dinner in order to discuss the other Friends. When Phoebe was upset because she'd turned thirty-one without having had the perfect kiss, Joey kissed her so that she could cross that off her list (also adding that he was one-sixteenth Portuguese when she mentioned that she hadn't met any Portuguese people).
Joey did not have romantic feelings for Phoebe. Joey dates briefly Phoebe's twin sister Ursula, which upsets Phoebe; he breaks it off to preserve his friendship with Phoebe, however.[26]
When Monica finds out that Joey "sees a friend in a different way", she assumes it to be Phoebe. Phoebe, overwhelmed by the news, approaches Joey, only to find that it is Rachel. Phoebe also has Joey locked in as a backup for her marriage.
When the Friends believe that the group may have to split up, Phoebe and Rachel conspire to form a separate group by themselves, but Phoebe insists that Joey be invited to their new group as well. Phoebe's loyalty is proved again when she states that she could live in Las Vegas, since it has everything she needs, "Including Joey!". He, in turn, invites her to live with him in the mansion he expected to own when he becomes rich from having a hand twin.
When Joey learned from a customer at Central Perk that Phoebe was apparently a porn star, he refused to watch the movies even when the other four decided to do so. However, he shows a new interest in them when he learned that the film actually stars Ursula.[27]
When Joey believes Phoebe to be pregnant, he proposes, claiming the world is too scary for a single mother. This proposal is apparently made entirely without romantic intentions. Phoebe says yes and accepts his ring, but Monica tells Joey that it is Rachel who is pregnant, so Joey proposes to Rachel and must retrieve the ring from a reluctant Phoebe.[28]
Phoebe also sets up Joey with many of her friends. On a double date, Joey sets her up with a stranger, Mike (Paul Rudd), whom she eventually marries.
In one episode, after persuasion from Rachel, he reads Little Women and she reads The Shining. She finds out that whenever he gets scared whilst reading he puts the book in the freezer. At the end of the episode, Joey is afraid that one of the characters is going to die and Rachel says 'Do you want to put it in the freezer?' Their close friendship continues and when a fire destroys Rachel and Phoebe's apartment, Rachel moves in with Joey and stays there, even after her apartment has been repaired.
Halfway through season 8, Joey and Rachel go out on a date, so that Rachel can have one night of fun before it becomes too obvious that she's pregnant. They have a great time, and afterwards, Joey starts developing feelings for Rachel unbeknown to her. He does not act on his feelings because he is too loyal to Ross and feels like it would betray him to have a possible relationship with Rachel. However, upon discovering that Joey's not just having a crush on Rachel, but is in fact in love with her, Ross encourages his friend to talk to her. Joey tells Rachel about his feelings, but she does not return them, and things are awkward between them for a while.
In late season 9, Rachel starts developing feelings for Joey, but fears he does not feel the same way anymore and has already moved on, especially when he starts dating Charlie. When the gang goes to Barbados for a convention from Ross' work, Joey finds out about Rachel's feelings, and even though he first says nothing can happen, he changes his mind when he sees Charlie and Ross kiss, and he goes back to Rachel's room to be with her. They continue their relationship for several episodes and gain Ross' approval after he realizes it's been six years since his relationship with Rachel ended, and he should move on from that. When Rachel and Joey prepare for their first night together, however, they realize they're too close as friends to make their relationship work, with Rachel instinctively slapping Joey away when he tries to touch her as she suddenly finds herself unable to get past the fact that it's Joey touching her. After Chandler mentions how natural it was for him and Monica to make the transition from friends to lovers, Joey and Rachel realize they aren't on the same path and go back to being friends. At the end, when Chandler and Monica announce that they are moving into a house, Joey presents them with a very housewarming gift a chick and a duck, who are named Chick, Jr. and Duck, Jr. The pets remain in Joey's apartment.
Joey[edit]
After the 2003/2004 final season of Friends, Joey Tribbiani became the main character of Joey, a spin-off TV series, where he moved to L.A. to polish his acting career. His sister Gina Tribbiani and her son Michael (Paulo Costanzo) were two other central characters of the show.
Joey turned down a role in a sitcom called Nurses to star in a different series pilot. His pilot did not get picked up, while Nurses became a huge hit. However, his acting career has had some better moments. In Joey, it is revealed that Joey's character of Dr. Drake Ramoray died again on Days of our Lives where he is stabbed by a nurse ("Joey and the Wrong Name"). He won a Daytime Soap Award for "Best Death Scene". In later Joey episodes, Joey landed a starring role on the prime time soap Deep Powder. When he got fired from that job, he almost immediately bounced back by snagging a leading role in the big-budget action picture Captured
The series' penultimate episode sees Joey in an established and committed relationship with Alex Garrett, his next-door neighbor.
References[edit]
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Jump up ^ "The One with the Boob Job". Friends. Season 9. Episode 16. February 20, 2003. NBC.
Jump up ^ "The One with the Embryos". Friends. Season 4. Episode 12. January 15, 1998. NBC.
Jump up ^ "The One Where Joey Loses His Insurance". Friends. Season 6. Episode 4. October 14, 1999. NBC.
Jump up ^ "The One with the Boobies". Friends. Season 1. Episode 13. January 19, 1995. NBC.
Jump up ^ "The One with Phoebe's Husband". Friends. Season 2. Episode 4. October 12, 1995. NBC.
^ Jump up to: a b "The One with the Butt". Friends. Season 1. Episode 6. October 27, 1994. NBC.
Jump up ^ "The One Where Underdog Gets Away". Friends. Season 1. Episode 9. November 17, 1994. NBC.
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Jump up ^ "The One with the Jam". Friends. Season 3. Episode 3. October 5, 1996. NBC.
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Jump up ^ "The One with the Chicken Pox". Friends. Season 2. Episode 23. May 9, 1996. NBC.
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