The architecture of virtual machines

By James E. Smith, R. Nair. Computer, 2005

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Subfields: Computer Networks and Communications, Hardware and Architecture, Information Systems

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The Spack package manager: bringing order to HPC software chaos (2015, methodology): “The classic solution to this problem is to use virtual machines (VMs) [5, 35, 37] or lightweight virtualization techniques like Linux containers [17, 29].”
CloudVisor: retrofitting protection of virtual machines in multi-tenant cloud with nested virtualization (2011, background): “First, many cloud platforms usually adopt off-the-shelf virtualized infrastructures for the purpose of easing deployment and lowering costs.”
Wireless Network Virtualization: A Survey, Some Research Issues and Challenges (2015, background): “, virtual memory [1], virtual machines [2], virtual storage access network [3] and virtual data centers [4].”
Survey on Network Virtualization Hypervisors for Software Defined Networking (2015, background): “In this section we give tutorial background on the topic areas of network virtualization, software defined networking (SDN), and hypervisors.”
5G network slicing using SDN and NFV- A survey of taxonomy, architectures and future challenges (2019, background): “Virtual Machine (VM) [132] enables the virtualization of a physical resource where an experimenter can run his/her own Operating System (OS).”
Network Slicing and Softwarization: A Survey on Principles, Enabling Technologies, and Solutions (2018, background): “Depending on the underlying hypervisor, VMs known as system virtual machines [66], can be instantiated to offer full support for a complete OS executing multiple processes.”
HCOC: a cost optimization algorithm for workflow scheduling in hybrid clouds (2011, background): “Virtualization [31] is the process of presenting a logical grouping or subset of computing resources so that they can be accessed in abstract ways with benefits over the original configuration.”
The Turtles Project: Design and Implementation of Nested Virtualization (2010, methodology): “We address each of the following areas: CPU (e.g., instruction-set) virtualization, memory (MMU) virtualization, and I/O virtualization. x86 virtualization follows the “trap and emulate” model [21,22,36].”
Labels and event processes in the asbestos operating system (2005, neutral): “Mandatory access control can also be achieved with unmodified traditional operating systems through virtual machines [11, 17].”
The iPlant Collaborative: Cyberinfrastructure for Plant Biology (2011, background): “Atmosphere provides users with an image of a virtual machine, which is a completely isolated operating system (Smith and Nair, 2005). iPlant provides many different types of virtual machine images, from basic Linux to Linux with complex analytical software stacks pre-installed and configured.”