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ASPLOS
2009
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
TwinDrivers: semi-automatic derivation of fast and safe hypervisor network drivers from guest OS drivers
In a virtualized environment, device drivers are often run inside a virtual machine (VM) rather than in the hypervisor, for reasons of safety and reduction in software engineering...
Aravind Menon, Simon Schubert, Willy Zwaenepoel
SAC
2009
ACM
14 years 7 days ago
Fast networking with socket-outsourcing in hosted virtual machine environments
This paper proposes a novel method of achieving fast networking in hosted virtual machine (VM) environments. This method, called socket-outsourcing, replaces the socket layer in a...
Hideki Eiraku, Yasushi Shinjo, Calton Pu, Younggyu...
NSDI
2008
13 years 10 months ago
Ad-hoc Guesting: When Exceptions Are the Rule
People's work days are filled with exceptions to normal routine. These exceptions affect the security and privacy of their information access and sharing. In a recent ethnogr...
Brinda Dalal, Les Nelson, Diana K. Smetters, Natha...
ASPLOS
2012
ACM
12 years 3 months ago
ELI: bare-metal performance for I/O virtualization
Direct device assignment enhances the performance of guest virtual machines by allowing them to communicate with I/O devices without host involvement. But even with device assignm...
Abel Gordon, Nadav Amit, Nadav Har'El, Muli Ben-Ye...
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