Performance profiling of virtual machines

ACM SIGPLAN Notices

Volumn 46, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 3-14

  Du, Jiaqing ^a   Sehrawat, Nipun ^b   Zwaenepoel, Willy ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Binary Translation; Hardwareassisted Virtualization; Paravirtualization; Performance Profiling; Virtual Machine

Indexed keywords

BINARY TRANSLATION; HARDWARE-ASSISTED; PARAVIRTUALIZATION; PERFORMANCE PROFILING; VIRTUAL MACHINES;

COMPUTER DEBUGGING; VIRTUAL REALITY;

PROGRAM DEBUGGING;

EID: 80053471744     PISSN: 15232867     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/2007477.1952686     Document Type: Article

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