TCP Vegas: new techniques for congestion detection and avoidance
SIGCOMM '94 Proceedings of the conference on Communications architectures, protocols and applications
Exokernel: an operating system architecture for application-level resource management
SOSP '95 Proceedings of the fifteenth ACM symposium on Operating systems principles
Extensibility safety and performance in the SPIN operating system
SOSP '95 Proceedings of the fifteenth ACM symposium on Operating systems principles
Dealing with disaster: surviving misbehaved kernel extensions
OSDI '96 Proceedings of the second USENIX symposium on Operating systems design and implementation
The performance of μ-kernel-based systems
Proceedings of the sixteenth ACM symposium on Operating systems principles
Disco: running commodity operating systems on scalable multiprocessors
Proceedings of the sixteenth ACM symposium on Operating systems principles
Information and control in gray-box systems
SOSP '01 Proceedings of the eighteenth ACM symposium on Operating systems principles
Virtualizing I/O Devices on VMware Workstation's Hosted Virtual Machine Monitor
Proceedings of the General Track: 2002 USENIX Annual Technical Conference
Accent: A communication oriented network operating system kernel
SOSP '81 Proceedings of the eighth ACM symposium on Operating systems principles
When Virtual Is Better Than Real
HOTOS '01 Proceedings of the Eighth Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating Systems
Transforming policies into mechanisms with infokernel
SOSP '03 Proceedings of the nineteenth ACM symposium on Operating systems principles
Xen and the art of virtualization
SOSP '03 Proceedings of the nineteenth ACM symposium on Operating systems principles
Memory resource management in VMware ESX server
OSDI '02 Proceedings of the 5th symposium on Operating systems design and implementationCopyright restrictions prevent ACM from being able to make the PDFs for this conference available for downloading
Scale and performance in the Denali isolation kernel
OSDI '02 Proceedings of the 5th symposium on Operating systems design and implementationCopyright restrictions prevent ACM from being able to make the PDFs for this conference available for downloading
Understanding The Linux Kernel
Understanding The Linux Kernel
Detecting past and present intrusions through vulnerability-specific predicates
Proceedings of the twentieth ACM symposium on Operating systems principles
Scalability, fidelity, and containment in the potemkin virtual honeyfarm
Proceedings of the twentieth ACM symposium on Operating systems principles
Idletime scheduling with preemption intervals
Proceedings of the twentieth ACM symposium on Operating systems principles
Geiger: monitoring the buffer cache in a virtual machine environment
Proceedings of the 12th international conference on Architectural support for programming languages and operating systems
Making the "box" transparent: system call performance as a first-class result
ATEC '04 Proceedings of the annual conference on USENIX Annual Technical Conference
Dynamic instrumentation of production systems
ATEC '04 Proceedings of the annual conference on USENIX Annual Technical Conference
Towards scalable multiprocessor virtual machines
VM'04 Proceedings of the 3rd conference on Virtual Machine Research And Technology Symposium - Volume 3
Antfarm: tracking processes in a virtual machine environment
ATEC '06 Proceedings of the annual conference on USENIX '06 Annual Technical Conference
Differential virtual time (DVT): rethinking I/O service differentiation for virtual machines
Proceedings of the 1st ACM symposium on Cloud computing
Controlling the speed of virtual time for malware deactivation
Proceedings of the Asia-Pacific Workshop on Systems
Controlling the speed of virtual time for malware deactivation
APSys'12 Proceedings of the Third ACM SIGOPS Asia-Pacific conference on Systems
Adaptive Online Compression in Clouds--Making Informed Decisions in Virtual Machine Environments
Journal of Grid Computing
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Integrating new resource management policies into operating systems (OSes) is an ongoing process. Despite innovative policy proposals being developed, it is quite difficult to deploy a new one widely because it is difficult, costly and often impractical endeavor to modify existing OSes to integrate a new policy. To address this problem, we explore the possibility of using virtual machine technology to incorporate a new policy into an existing OS without the need to make any changes to it. This paper describes FoxyTechnique, which virtualizes physical devices differently from real ones and tricks a guest OS into producing a behavior similar to a desired policy. FoxyTechnique offers several advantages. First, it allows us to implement a new policy without the need to make any changes to OS kernels. Second, Foxy-based policies are expected to be portable across different operating systems because they are isolated from guest OSes by stable virtual hardware interfaces. Finally, Foxy-based policies sometimes outperform guest OS policies because they can measure performance indicators more accurately than guest OSes. To demonstrate the usefulness of FoxyTechnique, we conducted two case studies, FoxyVegas and FoxyIdle, on the Xen virtual machine monitor. FoxyVegas and FoxyIdle tricked the original Linux and successfully mimicked TCP Vegas and Idletime scheduling, respectively.