vCourse: A course platform based on virtualization technology
Yu Liu, Jinmo Wang · 2012
This paper presents a platform named vCourse based on the virtualization technology.vCourse supports multiple operation systems and multiple courses online.Teachers can create a course template and deploy it as many virtual machines.Students can do their exercises on those virtual machines and interact with others and the teacher.The features, structure and key mechanisms of vCourse are discussed in this paper.Two experiments are designed to evaluate the performance of vCourse.According to the test results, vCourse can run the typical software smoothly and is not very sensitive on the virtual machine numbers.