This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Workshop, SVM 2008, held in Munich, Germany, in October 2008.

Systems and Virtualization Management: Standards and New Technologies.- Virtual Execution Environments and the Negotiation of Service Level Agreements in Grid Systems.- An Extension of XACML to Improve the Performance of Decision Making Processes When Dealing with Stable Conditions.- LVD: A Lightweight Virtual Desktop Management Architecture.- CIM-Based Resource Information Management for Integrated Access Control Manager.- Scenario-Based Distributed Virtualization Management Architecture for Multi-host Environments.- Web Service Distributed Management Framework for Autonomic Server Virtualization.- Virtual System Environments.- Authentication in Virtual Organizations: A Reputation Based PKI Interconnection Model.- Business Service Management in a Service Oriented, Virtualized World.- A Control of a Mono and Multi Scale Measurement of a Grid.- A Resource Management Mechanism and Its Implementation for Virtual Machines.- VNEC - A Virtual Network Experiment Controller.- Update on SystemVirtualization Management.