Virtio: Towards a de-facto standard for virtual I/O devices

Operating Systems Review (ACM)

Volumn 42, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 95-103

  Russell, Rusty ^a  

^a IBM Australia   (Australia)

Author keywords

I O; KVM; Lguest; Linux; Ring buffer; Virtio; Virtio pci; Virtualization; Vring

Indexed keywords

DE FACTO STANDARD; DEVICE CONFIGURATIONS; HYPERVISOR; I/O DEVICE; I/O MECHANISMS; LINUX KERNEL; OPERATING SYSTEMS; SYSTEM Z; TRANSPORT MECHANISM; USER-MODE LINUX; VIRTUAL DEVICES; VIRTUALIZATIONS;

LEGACY SYSTEMS;

COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS;

EID: 70349112366     PISSN: 01635980     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1400097.1400108     Document Type: Conference Paper

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