Virtualizing I/O Devices on VMware Workstation's Hosted Virtual Machine Monitor
Proceedings of the General Track: 2002 USENIX Annual Technical Conference
Analysis of a Denial of Service Attack on TCP
SP '97 Proceedings of the 1997 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy
QoS's downfall: at the bottom, or not at all!
RIPQoS '03 Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM workshop on Revisiting IP QoS: What have we learned, why do we care?
Xen and the art of virtualization
SOSP '03 Proceedings of the nineteenth ACM symposium on Operating systems principles
Solaris Zones: Operating System Support for Consolidating Commercial Workloads
LISA '04 Proceedings of the 18th USENIX conference on System administration
Proceedings of the 2nd ACM SIGOPS/EuroSys European Conference on Computer Systems 2007
Crossbow: from hardware virtualized NICs to virtualized networks
Proceedings of the 1st ACM workshop on Virtualized infrastructure systems and architectures
Crossbow: a vertically integrated QoS stack
Proceedings of the 1st ACM workshop on Research on enterprise networking
Reproducible network experiments using container-based emulation
Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Emerging networking experiments and technologies
Direct code execution: revisiting library OS architecture for reproducible network experiments
Proceedings of the ninth ACM conference on Emerging networking experiments and technologies
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Project Crossbow in OpenSolaris is introducing new abstractions that provide virtual network interface cards (VNICs) and virtual switches that can have dedicated hardware resources and bandwidth assigned to them. Multiple VNICs can be assigned to OpenSolaris zones to create virtual network machines (VNM) that provide higher level networking functionality like virtual routing, virtual load balancing, and so on. These components can be combined to build an arbitrarily complex virtual network called virtual wire (vWire) which can span one or more physical machines. vWires on the same physical network can be VLAN-separated and support dynamic migration of virtual machines, which is an essential feature for hosting and cloud operators. vWires can be reduced to a set of rules and objects that can be easily modified or replicated. This ability is useful for abstracting out the application from the hardware and the network, and thus considerably facilitates management and hardware upgrade. The administrative model is simple yet powerful. It allows administrators to validate their network architecture, do performance and bottleneck analysis, and debug existing problems in physical networks by replicating them in virtual form within a box.