Scheduling I/O in virtual machine monitors

VEE'08 - Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Virtual Execution Environments

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 1-10

  Ongaro, Diego ^a   Cox, Alan L ^a   Rixner, Scott ^a  

^a RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Machine virtualization; Network I O; Scheduling policy; Server consolidation; Xen

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION PERFORMANCE; CROSS PRODUCT; FUTURE INNOVATIONS; I/O PERFORMANCE; I/O SCHEDULING; KEY PROBLEMS; PROCESSOR RESOURCES; SENSITIVE APPLICATION; VIRTUAL MACHINE MONITORS; VIRTUALIZATIONS;

NANOTECHNOLOGY;

SCHEDULING;

EID: 77952382094     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1346256.1346258     Document Type: Conference Paper

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