The Reincarnation of Virtual Machines

  • Authors:
  • Mendel Rosenblum

  • Affiliations:
  • Stanford University

  • Venue:
  • Queue - Virtual Machines
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

The term "virtual machine" initially described a 1960s operating system concept: a software abstraction with the looks of a computer system's hardware (real machine). Forty years later, the term encompasses a large range of abstractions - for example, Java virtual machines that don't match an existing real machine. Despite the variations, in all definitions the virtual machine is a target for a programmer or compilation system. In other words, software is written to run on the virtual machine.