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

Operating Systems Review (ACM)

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 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

ONLINE MAINTENANCE; PLANNED DOWNTIME; VIRTUAL MACHINES;

AVAILABILITY; COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE; ONLINE SYSTEMS; SERVERS; SOFTWARE PROTOTYPING;

VIRTUAL REALITY;

EID: 33845408481     PISSN: 01635980     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1037949.1024419     Document Type: Conference Paper

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