Difference engine: Harnessing memory redundancy in virtual machines

Proceedings of the 8th USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation, OSDI 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2019, Pages 309-322

  Gupta, Diwaker ^a   Lee, Sangmin ^a,b   Vrable, Michael ^a   Savage, Stefan ^a   Snoeren, Alex C ^a   Varghese, George ^a   Voelker, Geoffrey M ^c   Vahdat, Amin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENGINES; NETWORK SECURITY; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

COMMODITY OPERATING SYSTEMS; DIFFERENCE ENGINES; HARDWARE RESOURCES; HETEROGENEOUS WORKLOADS; MEMORY COMPRESSION; MEMORY REDUNDANCY; MIGRATION POLICY; VIRTUAL MACHINE MONITORS;

VIRTUAL MACHINE;

EID: 85076898936     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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