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This paper surveys virtualization of I/O devices, which is one of the most difficult parts in system virtualization. Current technologies of virtualizing I/O devices include full virtualization, paravirtualization, software emulation and VMM-bypass direct I/O. Optimizations are also done to improve the performance of each technology. Most optimizations used paravirtualization technology for reference...
Intel and AMD have provided hardware support, VT and SVM, to support classical full virtualization. The hardware extensions help to implement a VMM without changing the guest OS or resorting to software binary translation. Ironically, a VMM using VT or SVM has not yet met performance expectation. One major reason is that there still exist too many VM exits that incur significant overhead. This paper...
Hypervisor-based fault tolerance (HBFT), a checkpoint-recovery mechanism, is an emerging approach to sustaining mission-critical applications. Based on virtualization technology, HBFT provides an economic and transparent solution. However, the advantages currently come at the cost of substantial overhead during failure-free, especially for memory intensive applications. This paper presents an in-depth...
Virtualization is often used in systems for the purpose of offering isolation among applications running in separate virtual machines (VM). Current virtual machine monitors (VMMs) have done a decent job in resource isolation in memory, CPU and I/O devices. However, when looking further into the usage of lower-level shared cache, we notice that one virtual machinepsilas cache behavior may interfere...
In virtual machine (VM) systems, with the increase in the number of VMs and the demands of applications, the main memory is becoming a bottleneck of application performance. To improve paging performance for memory-intensive or I/O-intensive workloads, we propose the hypervisor remote disk cache (REMOCA), which allows a virtual machine to use the memory resources on other physical machines as its...
Virtual machine (VM) cloning is to create a replica of a source virtual machine (parent virtual machine); the replica, also called child virtual machine, owns exactly the same executing status as parent virtual machine. Fast live cloning guarantees that, during the period of cloning, the services running on the parent virtual machine observe no performance degradation. There are three important goals...
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