Virtual machines: A whole new world for performance analysis

Operating Systems Review (ACM)

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 46-55

  Bratanov, Stanislav ^a   Belenov, Roman ^a   Manovich, Nikita ^a  

^a Intel Corporation   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Hardware performance event counters; Virtual machines

Indexed keywords

EXECUTION ENVIRONMENTS; HARDWARE PERFORMANCE; MULTI-THREADED PROGRAMS; NOVEL METHODS; PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS; PERFORMANCE DATA; PERFORMANCE ISSUES; PERFORMANCE MONITORING; REAL ENVIRONMENTS; SOFTWARE DEVELOPER; VIRTUAL MACHINES; VIRTUALIZATIONS;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DATA ACQUISITION; MULTITASKING;

HARDWARE;

EID: 77952255882     PISSN: 01635980     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1531793.1531802     Document Type: Conference Paper

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