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ASPLOS
2009
ACM
16 years 6 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
15 years 10 months 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
15 years 8 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
14 years 1 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
15 years 8 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