The changing virtual machine environment: interfaces to real hardware, virtual hardware, and other virtual machines

  • Authors:
  • R. A. MacKinnon

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • IBM Systems Journal
  • Year:
  • 1979

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Abstract

This paper is a survey of changes to virtual machine interfaces, implementation, architecture, and simulation techniques as they affect IBM System/370 and 303X (3031, 3032, 3033) processors, the system control program to which virtual machines interface, and other virtual machines executing on the same real computing system or elsewhere. The paper seeks to summarize such changes and provide a perspective on the virtual machine environment. New uses of virtual machine subsystems are discussed as they relate to inter-virtual-machine communication.