OSV- Optimizing the operating system for virtual machines

Proceedings of the 2014 USENIX Annual Technical Conference, USENIX ATC 2014

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 61-72

  Kivity, Avi ^a   Laor, Dor ^a   Costa, Glauber ^a   Enberg, Pekka ^a   Har'El, Nadav ^a   Marti, Don ^a   Zolotarov, Vlad ^a  

^a Cloudius Systems

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LINUX; NETWORK SECURITY;

CLOUD HYPERVISOR; DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATIONS; GUEST OPERATING SYSTEMS; HARDWARE ABSTRACTIONS; IMPROVE PERFORMANCE; LOW OVERHEAD; NETWORK-INTENSIVE APPLICATIONS; NEW APPLICATIONS;

VIRTUAL MACHINE;

EID: 85077433724     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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