Vigilant: Out-of-band detection of failures in virtual machines

Operating Systems Review (ACM)

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 26-31

  Pelleg, Dan ^a   Ben Yehuda, Muli ^a   Harper, Rick ^a   Spainhower, Lisa ^a   Adeshiyan, Tokunbo ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENERAL PURPOSE; HYPERVISOR; IN-BAND; MACHINE LEARNING METHODS; MACHINE-LEARNING; MONITORED SYSTEMS; MONITORING AGENTS; OPERATING SYSTEMS; OUT-OF-BAND; RESOURCE REQUEST; VIRTUAL MACHINES; VIRTUAL OBJECTS; VIRTUALIZATIONS;

COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS; NETWORK SECURITY;

LEARNING SYSTEMS;

EID: 70049106694     PISSN: 01635980     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1341312.1341319     Document Type: Conference Paper

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