An empirical study of memory sharing in virtual machines

Proceedings of the 2012 USENIX Annual Technical Conference, USENIX ATC 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2019, Pages 273-284

  Barker, Sean ^a   Wood, Timothy ^b   Shenoy, Prashant ^a   Sitaraman, Ramesh ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^b GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NETWORK SECURITY; VIRTUAL REALITY;

ADDRESS SPACE LAYOUT RANDOMIZATIONS; CONTENT-BASED; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; MEMORY-SHARING; REAL WORLD UTILITY; SERVER MEMORY; SINGLE- MACHINES; VIRTUALIZED ENVIRONMENT;

VIRTUAL MACHINE;

EID: 85077132991     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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