Proper: privileged operations in a virtualised system environment

Authors:
Steve Muir;Larry Peterson;Marc Fiuczynski;Justin Cappos;John Hartman
Affiliations:
Princeton University and the University of Arizona;Princeton University and the University of Arizona;Princeton University and the University of Arizona;Princeton University and the University of Arizona;Princeton University and the University of Arizona
Venue:
ATEC '05 Proceedings of the annual conference on USENIX Annual Technical Conference
Year:
2005

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Abstract

Virtualised systems have experienced a resurgence in popularity in recent years, particularly in supporting a large number of independent services on a single host. This paper describes our work designing and implementing Proper, a service running on the PlanetLab system, that allows other services to perform privileged operations in a safe, controlled manner. We describe how implementing such a system in a traditional UNIX environment is non-trivial, and discuss the practical use of Proper.