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RTAS
2011
IEEE
13 years 1 months ago
Virtual-CPU Scheduling in the Quest Operating System
This paper describes the scheduling framework for a new operating system called “Quest”. The three main goals of Quest are to ensure safety, predictability and efficiency of ...
Matthew Danish, Ye Li, Richard West
USENIX
2003
13 years 11 months ago
Operating System Support for Virtual Machines
Abstract: A virtual-machine monitor (VMM) is a useful technique for adding functionality below existing operating system and application software. One class of VMMs (called Type II...
Samuel T. King, George W. Dunlap, Peter M. Chen
ASPLOS
2004
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Devirtualizable virtual machines enabling general, single-node, online maintenance
Maintenance is the dominant source of downtime at high availability sites. Unfortunately, the dominant mechanism for reducing this downtime, cluster rolling upgrade, has two short...
David E. Lowell, Yasushi Saito, Eileen J. Samberg
ICDE
2001
IEEE
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14 years 11 months ago
Dependable Computing in Virtual Laboratories
Many scientific disciplines are shifting from in vitro to in silico research as more physical processes and natural phenomena are examined in a computer (in silico) instead of bei...
Gustavo Alonso, Win Bausch, Cesare Pautasso, Ari K...
SOSP
2007
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
Secure virtual architecture: a safe execution environment for commodity operating systems
This paper describes an efficient and robust approach to provide a safe execution environment for an entire operating system, such as Linux, and all its applications. The approach...
John Criswell, Andrew Lenharth, Dinakar Dhurjati, ...