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INFOCOM
2012
IEEE
12 years 2 months ago
SageShift: Managing SLAs for highly consolidated cloud
– Maximizing consolidation ratio, the number of virtual machines (VMs) in a physical machine, without violating customers’ SLAs is an important goal in the cloud. We show that ...
Orathai Sukwong, Akkarit Sangpetch, Hyong S. Kim
ASPLOS
2012
ACM
12 years 8 months ago
Architectural support for hypervisor-secure virtualization
Virtualization has become a standard part of many computer systems. A key part of virtualization is the all-powerful hypervisor which manages the physical platform and can access ...
Jakub Szefer, Ruby B. Lee
CCS
2010
ACM
14 years 19 days ago
HyperSentry: enabling stealthy in-context measurement of hypervisor integrity
This paper presents HyperSentry, a novel framework to enable integrity measurement of a running hypervisor (or any other highest privileged software layer on a system). Unlike exi...
Ahmed M. Azab, Peng Ning, Zhi Wang, Xuxian Jiang, ...
USENIX
2007
14 years 2 months ago
Virtual Machine Memory Access Tracing with Hypervisor Exclusive Cache
Virtual machine (VM) memory allocation and VM consolidation can benefit from the prediction of VM page miss rate at each candidate memory size. Such prediction is challenging for...
Pin Lu, Kai Shen
TRUST
2010
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Requirements for an Integrity-Protected Hypervisor on the x86 Hardware Virtualized Architecture
Virtualization has been purported to be a panacea for many security problems. We analyze the feasibility of constructing an integrity-protected hypervisor on contemporary x86 hardw...
Amit Vasudevan, Jonathan M. McCune, Ning Qu, Leend...
VEE
2009
ACM
613views Virtualization» more  VEE 2009»
14 years 7 months ago
BitVisor: a thin hypervisor for enforcing i/o device security
Virtual machine monitors (VMMs), including hypervisors, are a popular platform for implementing various security functionalities. However, traditional VMMs require numerous compon...
Takahiro Shinagawa, Hideki Eiraku, Kouichi Tanimot...
VEE
2010
ACM
327views Virtualization» more  VEE 2010»
14 years 7 months ago
AASH: an asymmetry-aware scheduler for hypervisors
Asymmetric multicore processors (AMP) consist of cores exposing the same instruction-set architecture (ISA) but varying in size, frequency, power consumption and performance. AMPs...
Vahid Kazempour, Ali Kamali, Alexandra Fedorova