Xen and the art of virtualization
SOSP '03 Proceedings of the nineteenth ACM symposium on Operating systems principles
Diagnosing performance overheads in the xen virtual machine environment
Proceedings of the 1st ACM/USENIX international conference on Virtual execution environments
HyperSpector: virtual distributed monitoring environments for secure intrusion detection
Proceedings of the 1st ACM/USENIX international conference on Virtual execution environments
A comparison of software and hardware techniques for x86 virtualization
Proceedings of the 12th international conference on Architectural support for programming languages and operating systems
Proper: privileged operations in a virtualised system environment
ATEC '05 Proceedings of the annual conference on USENIX Annual Technical Conference
Optimizing network virtualization in Xen
ATEC '06 Proceedings of the annual conference on USENIX '06 Annual Technical Conference
lmbench: portable tools for performance analysis
ATEC '96 Proceedings of the 1996 annual conference on USENIX Annual Technical Conference
Inter-domain socket communications supporting high performance and full binary compatibility on Xen
Proceedings of the fourth ACM SIGPLAN/SIGOPS international conference on Virtual execution environments
Virtual machine aware communication libraries for high performance computing
Proceedings of the 2007 ACM/IEEE conference on Supercomputing
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In virtualization technology field, researches mainly focus on strengthening the isolation barrier between virtual machines (VMs) that are co-resident within a single physical machine. At the same time, there are many kinds of distributed communication-intensive applications such as web services, transaction processing, graphics rendering and high performance grid applications, which need to communicate with other virtual machines at the same platform. Unfortunately, current inter-VM communication method cannot adequately satisfy the requirement of such applications. In this paper, we present the design and implementation of a high performance inter-VM communication method called IVCOM based on Xen virtual machine environment. In para-virtualization, IVCOM achieves high performance by bypassing some protocol stacks and privileged domain, shunning page flipping and providing a direct and high-performance communication path between VMs residing in the same physical machine. But in full-virtualization, IVCOM applies a direct communication channel between domain 0 and Hardware Virtualization based VM (HV^2M) and can greatly reduce the VM entry/exit operations, which has improved the HV^2M performance. In the evaluation of para-virtualization consisting of a few of benchmarks, we observe that IVCOM can reduce the inter-VM round trip latency by 70% and increase throughput by up to 3 times, which prove the efficiency of IVCOM in para-virtualized environment. In the full-virtualized one, IVCOM can reduce 90% VMX transition operations in the communication between domain 0 and HV^2M.