Unmodified Device Driver Reuse and Improved System Dependability via Virtual Machines

By Joshua LeVasseur, Volkmar Uhlig, Jan Stoess, S. Götz. USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation, 2004

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vCUDA: GPU accelerated high performance computing in virtual machines (2009, methodology): “VMM technology has been applied to many areas including intrusion detection [8], high performance computing [12] and device driver reuse [21] et al. Over the past few years, there has been a marked increase in the performance and capabilities of graphics processing unit (GPU).”
Diagnosing performance overheads in the xen virtual machine environment (2005, methodology): “The use of techniques similar to Xen’s I/O device driver domains seems to be a growing trend with many cited advantages including portability, reliability, and extensibility [10, 9, 24, 14].”
Debugging Operating Systems with Time-Traveling Virtual Machines (Awarded General Track Best Paper Award!) (2005, background): “Allowing the guest device driver to initiate DMA transfers allows the guest OS to potentially corrupt host memory, since the device can access all of the host’s physical memory [17].”
SubVirt: implementing malware with virtual machines (2006, background): “The VMBR can allow the target OS to access remaining devices directly [32].”
Safe Hardware Access with the Xen Virtual Machine Monitor (2007, background): “Perhaps most closely related to our work are recent attempts by researchers to use a microkernel approach to allow the reuse of unmodified device drivers within newer operating systems [24, 25].”
The Turtles Project: Design and Implementation of Nested Virtualization (2010, methodology): “For efﬁ-cient I/O virtualization, we bypass multiple levels of hypervisor I/O stacks to provide nested guests with direct assignment of I/O devices [11, 31, 37, 52, 53] via multi-level device assignment .”
Improving the reliability of commodity operating systems (2005, background): “Executing extensions in their own virtual machines solves this problem [83, 130, 72], but raises compatibility problems.”
NOVA: a microhypervisor-based secure virtualization architecture (2010, methodology): “Although Dom0 runs in a separate virtual machine, it contributes to the trusted computing base of all guest VMs that depend on its functionality.”