ClientVisor: Leverage COTS OS functionalities for power management in virtualized desktop environment

Operating Systems Review (ACM)

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 62-71

  Chen, Huacai ^a,b   Jin, Hai ^a   Shao, Zhiyuan ^a   Hu, Kan ^a   Yu, Ke ^b   Tian, Kun ^b  

^a HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b INTEL CORPORATION   (China)

Author keywords

Client virtualization; Power management; Virtual machine

Indexed keywords

COMMERCIAL-OFF-THE-SHELF; DESKTOP ENVIRONMENT; EMERGING TRENDS; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; FINAL DECISION; KEYPOINTS; LOWER-POWER CONSUMPTION; NOVEL SOLUTIONS; OPERATING SYSTEMS; PERIPHERAL DEVICES; POWER MANAGEMENTS; PROTOTYPE IMPLEMENTATIONS; SERVER CONSOLIDATION; STATIC POWER; USER EXPERIENCE; VIRTUAL MACHINES; VIRTUALIZATIONS;

ACCESS CONTROL; COMPUTER HARDWARE; COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS; ELECTRIC POWER MEASUREMENT; SOFTWARE PROTOTYPING;

ENERGY MANAGEMENT;

EID: 77952247806     PISSN: 01635980     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1618525.1618532     Document Type: Conference Paper

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