– 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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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...
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...
Virtual machine monitors (VMMs), including hypervisors, are a popular platform for implementing various security functionalities. However, traditional VMMs require numerous compon...
Asymmetric multicore processors (AMP) consist of cores exposing the same instruction-set architecture (ISA) but varying in size, frequency, power consumption and performance. AMPs...