Intel virtualization technology

By Richard Uhlig, G. Neiger, Dion Rodgers, A. Santoni, Fernando C. M. Martins, Andrew V. Anderson, Steven M. Bennett, A. Kägi, Felix H. Leung, L. Smith. Computer, 2005

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

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Dynamic Scheduling of Virtual Machines Running HPC Workloads in Scientific Grids (2007, methodology): “With the rise of powerful desktop computing, the present day virtualization technology [ 6 , 7] provides the following benefits:”
SubVirt: implementing malware with virtual machines (2006, methodology): “Upcoming virtualization support from Intel [45] and AMD [7] will enable more efficient virtualization.”
The Turtles Project: Design and Implementation of Nested Virtualization (2010, methodology): “During the last decade software virtualization technologies for x86 systems rapidly emerged and were widely adopted by the market, causing both AMD and Intel to add virtualization extensions to their x86 platforms (AMD SVM [4] and Intel VMX [48]).”
Intel SGX Explained (2016, methodology): “The hypervisor runs at a higher privilege level (VMX root mode) than the operating system, and is responsible for allocating hardware resources across multiple operating systems that share the same physical machine.”
Predicting Secret Keys Via Branch Prediction (2007, background): “Especially in the light of the ongoing Trusted Computing efforts, cf. [ TCG ], which promise to turn the commodity PC platform into a trustworthy platform, cf. also [CEPW, ELMP + ,G ra, Pea, TCG, UNRS +], the formerly described side channel attacks against PC platforms are of particular interest.”
Cost of Virtual Machine Live Migration in Clouds: A Performance Evaluation (2009, background): “The advent of innovative technologies, such as multicore [7], paravirtualization [1], hardware-assisted virtualization [8] and live migration [3], have contributed to an increasing adoption of virtualization on server systems.”
Dune: Safe User-level Access to Privileged CPU Features (2012, neutral): “In order to improve virtualization performance and simplify VMM implementation, Intel has developed VT-x [37], a virtualization extension to the x86 ISA.”
NOVA: a microhypervisor-based secure virtualization architecture (2010, methodology): “By using hardware support for CPU virtualization [37], nested paging [5], and I/O virtualization, NOVA can host fully virtualized legacy operating systems with less performance overhead than existing monolithic hypervisors.”
High performance network virtualization with SR-IOV (2010, methodology): “# Corresponding Author supports like Intel® Virtualization Technology [24].”
IX: A Protected Dataplane Operating System for High Throughput and Low Latency (2014, methodology): “Our current IX dataplane implementation is based on Dune and requires the VT-x virtualization features available on Intel x86-64 systems [62].”
On the power of simple branch prediction analysis (2007, background): “Especially in the light of ongoing Trusted Computing efforts, cf. [ TCG ], which promise to turn the commodity PC platform into a trustworthy platform, cf. also [CEPW,ELMP+,Gra,Pea,TCG,UNRS+], the formerly described side channel attacks against”
This paper is included in the Proceedings of the 12th USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI ’16). (neutral): “Despite improved support for hardware virtualization [21, 1, 60], containers retain a performance advantage over virtual machines (VMs) on hypervisors: not only are their startup times faster but also their I/O throughput and latency are superior [22].”