Virtual Machine Memory Access Tracing With Hypervisor Exclusive Cache

USENIX 2007 - 2007 USENIX Annual Technical Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 29-43

  Lu, Pin ^a   Shen, Kai ^a  

^a University of Rochester   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CACHE MEMORY; FORECASTING; MEMORY ARCHITECTURE; NETWORK SECURITY; SEARCH ENGINES;

HYPERVISORS; MEMORY ACCESS; MEMORY ACCESS PATTERNS; MEMORY PAGES; MEMORY SIZE; MEMORY SPACE; MISS-RATE; SECONDARY STORAGE; VIRTUAL MACHINE CONSOLIDATIONS; VIRTUAL MACHINE MONITORS;

VIRTUAL MACHINE;

EID: 85160809565     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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