Virtualize everything but time

Proceedings of the 9th USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation, OSDI 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2019, Pages 451-464

  Broomhead, Timothy ^a   Cremean, Laurence ^a   Ridoux, Julien ^a   Veitch, Darryl ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

FEED FORWARD; FINANCIAL TRANSACTIONS; LIVE MIGRATIONS; NETWORK MEASUREMENT; SYNCHRONIZATION ALGORITHM; VIRTUALIZED SYSTEMS; VM MIGRATIONS;

CLOCKS;

EID: 84902210317     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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