Devirtualizable virtual machines enabling general, single-node, online maintenance

11th International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems, ASPLOS XI

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 211-223

  Lowell, David E ^a   Saito, Yasushi ^a   Samberg, Eileen J ^a  

^a HEWLETT PACKARD LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Availability; Online maintenance; Planned downtime; Virtual machines

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS; FAILURE ANALYSIS; ONLINE SYSTEMS; OPTIMIZATION; REDUNDANCY; SERVERS; SOFTWARE PROTOTYPING; WORLD WIDE WEB;

IBM (CO); ONLINE MAINTENANCE; PLANNED DOWNTIME; VIRTUAL MACHINES;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE;

EID: 12844273420     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1024393.1024419     Document Type: Conference Paper

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