The performance of μ-kernel-based systems
Proceedings of the sixteenth ACM symposium on Operating systems principles
Xen and the art of virtualization
SOSP '03 Proceedings of the nineteenth ACM symposium on Operating systems principles
lmbench: portable tools for performance analysis
ATEC '96 Proceedings of the 1996 annual conference on USENIX Annual Technical Conference
A user-mode port of the linux kernel
ALS'00 Proceedings of the 4th annual Linux Showcase & Conference - Volume 4
The origin of the VM/370 time-sharing system
IBM Journal of Research and Development
Linux/RTOS hybrid operating environment on gandalf virtual machine monitor
EUC'06 Proceedings of the 2006 international conference on Embedded and Ubiquitous Computing
Improving Real-Time Performance of a Virtual Machine Monitor Based System
SEUS '08 Proceedings of the 6th IFIP WG 10.2 international workshop on Software Technologies for Embedded and Ubiquitous Systems
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These days, embedded and ubiquitous devices are becoming feature rich, and multiprocessor architectures for those devices are on the horizon. In order to utilize the resources of multiprocessor systems efficiently and securely, virtual machine monitors (VMMs) have been common among servers and desktop systems. The same can be applied if the cost of virtualization becomes much less expensive. In this paper, we introduce mesovirtualization, a new lightweight virtualization technique. Mesovirtualization makes VMMs smaller and requires only a few modifications for the guest operating system (OS) source code. We designed and implemented a VMM named Gandalf according to mesovirtualization. Our experimental results show that Linux on Gandalf performs better than Xen-Linux. Therefore, mesovirtualization makes virtualization environments suitable for embedded and ubiquitous devices.