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USENIX
2008
13 years 10 months ago
Protection Strategies for Direct Access to Virtualized I/O Devices
Commodity virtual machine monitors forbid direct access to I/O devices by untrusted guest operating systems in order to provide protection and sharing. However, both I/O memory ma...
Paul Willmann, Scott Rixner, Alan L. Cox
USENIX
2008
13 years 10 months ago
Bridging the Gap between Software and Hardware Techniques for I/O Virtualization
: The paravirtualized I/O driver domain model, used in Xen, provides several advantages including device driver isolation in a safe execution environment, support for guest VM tran...
Jose Renato Santos, Yoshio Turner, G. John Janakir...
DSN
2004
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
The Recursive NanoBox Processor Grid: A Reliable System Architecture for Unreliable Nanotechnology Devices
Advanced molecular nanotechnology devices are expected to have exceedingly high transient fault rates and large numbers of inherent device defects compared to conventional CMOS de...
A. J. KleinOsowski, Kevin KleinOsowski, Vijay Rang...
DSN
2007
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Robustness Testing of the Windows DDK
Modern computers interact with many kinds of external devices, which have lead to a state where device drivers (DD) account for a substantial part of the operating system (OS) cod...
Manuel Mendonça, Nuno Neves
CAV
2008
Springer
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13 years 9 months ago
Scalable Shape Analysis for Systems Code
Pointer safety faults in device drivers are one of the leading causes of crashes in operating systems code. In principle, shape analysis tools can be used to prove the absence of t...
Hongseok Yang, Oukseh Lee, Josh Berdine, Cristiano...