SymCall: Symbiotic virtualization through VMM-to-guest upcalls

Proceedings of the 2011 ACM SIGPLAN/SIGOPS International Conference on Virtual Execution Environments, VEE 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 193-204

  Lange, John R ^a   Dinda, Peter A ^b  

^a University of Pittsburgh   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Operating systems; Virtual machine monitors

Indexed keywords

HARDWARE INTERFACES; NEW APPROACHES; OPERATING SYSTEMS; PERFORMANCE EVALUATION; SERVICE-BASED; SOFTWARE INTERFACES; SYSTEM CALLS; VIRTUAL MACHINE MONITORS; VIRTUALIZATIONS;

COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA HANDLING; MACHINE DESIGN;

MONITORING;

EID: 79953208265     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1952682.1952707     Document Type: Conference Paper

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