Rethinking the Design of Virtual Machine Monitors

  • Authors:
  • Andrew Whitaker;Richard S. Cox;Marianne Shaw;Steven D. Gribble

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Washington;University of Washington;University of Washington;University of Washington

  • Venue:
  • Computer
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

To overcome the poor scalability and extensibility of traditional virtual machine monitors that partition a single physical machine into multiple virtual machines, the Denali VMM uses paravirtualization to promote scalability and hardware interposition to promote extensibility.