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VIDEZZO: Dependency-aware Virtual Device Fuzzing

Mathias Josef Payer, Flavio Toffalini, Qiang Liu

A virtual machine interacts with its host environment through virtual devices, driven by virtual device messages, e.g., I/O operations. By issuing crafted messages, an adversary can exploit a vulnerability in a virtual device to escape the virtual machine, ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.2023

A system design for elastically scaling transaction processing engines in virtualized servers

Anastasia Ailamaki, Raja Appuswamy, Angelos Christos Anadiotis, Hillel Avni

Online Transaction Processing (OLTP) deployments are migrating from on-premise to cloud settings in order to exploit the elasticity of cloud infrastructure which allows them to adapt to workload variations. However, cloud adaptation comes at the cost of re ...

ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2020

Self-Organized Laboratories for Smart Campus

Denis Gillet, Christophe Salzmann

A smart campus provides students who are geographically scattered with online tools to get access to learning resources and laboratories. Although these remote laboratories have the potential and capabilities to implement different learning experiments, mo ...

IEEE COMPUTER SOC2020

Experimental Validation of the Suitability of Virtualization-Based Replication for Fault Tolerance in Real-Time Control of Electric Grids

Jean-Yves Le Boudec, Wajeb Saab, Maaz Mashood Mohiuddin, Jalal Mostafa, Seyed Alireza Sanaee Kohroudi

Real-time control systems (RTCSs) perform complex control and require low response times. They typically use third-party software libraries and are deployed on generic hardware, which suffer from delay faults that can cause serious damage. To improve avail ...

2018

Implementing Virtual Machine Replication: A Case Study using Xen and KVM

André Schiper, Darko Petrovic

Virtual machine (VM) replication has been recognized as an inexpensive way of providing high availability on commodity hardware. Unfortunately, its impact on system performance is far from negligible and strategies have been proposed to mitigate this probl ...

IEEE Computer Society Press2012

Full System Simulation of Many-Core Heterogeneous SoCs using GPU and QEMU Semihosting

David Atienza Alonso, Luca Benini, Martino Ruggiero, Shivani Raghav

Modern system-on-chips are evolving towards complex and heterogeneous platforms with general-purpose processors coupled with massively parallel manycore accelerator fabrics (e.g. embedded GPUs). Platform developers are looking for efficient full-system sim ...

2012

Bringing Virtualization to the x86 Architecture with the Original VMware Workstation

Edouard Bugnion

This article describes the historical context, technical challenges, and main implementation techniques used by VMware Workstation to bring virtualization to the x86 architecture in 1999. Although virtual machine monitors (VMMs) had been around for decades ...

Association for Computing Machinery2012

Performance Profiling of Virtual Machines

Willy Zwaenepoel, Jiaqing Du

Profilers based on hardware performance counters are indispensable for performance debugging of complex software systems. All modern processors feature hardware performance counters, but current virtual machine monitors (VMMs) do not properly expose them t ...

2011

Performance Profiling in a Virtualized Environment

Willy Zwaenepoel, Jiaqing Du

Virtualization is a key enabling technology for cloud computing. Many applications deployed in a cloud run in virtual machines. However, profilers based on CPU performance counters do not work well in a virtualized environment. In this paper, we explore th ...

2010

TwinDrivers: Semi-Automatic Derivation of Fast and Safe Hypervisor Network Drivers from Guest OS Drivers

Willy Zwaenepoel, Aravind Menon, Simon Schubert

In a virtualized environment, device drivers are often run inside a virtual machine (VM) rather than in the hypervisor. Doing so protects the hypervisor from bugs in the driver, and also allows the reuse of the device driver and its support infrastructure ...

ACM2009

Optimizing network performance in virtual machines

Aravind Menon

In recent years, there has been a rapid growth in the adoption of virtual machine technology in data centers and cluster environments. This trend towards server virtualization is driven by two main factors: the savings in hardware cost that can be achieved ...

EPFL2009

Concurrent Direct Network Access for Virtual Machine Monitors

Willy Zwaenepoel, Aravind Menon

This paper presents hardware and software mechanisms to enable concurrent direct network access (CDNA) by operating systems running within a virtual machine monitor. In a conventional virtual machine monitor, each operating system running within a virtual ...

2007

Optimizing Network Virtualization in Xen

Willy Zwaenepoel, Aravind Menon

BEST PAPER AWARDIn this paper, we propose and evaluate three techniques for optimizing network performance in the Xen virtualized environment. Our techniques retain the basic Xen architecture of locating device dri ...

2006

Diagnosing Performance Overheads in the Xen Virtual Machine Environment

Willy Zwaenepoel, Aravind Menon

Virtual Machine (VM) environments (e.g., VMware and Xen) are experiencing a resurgence of interest for diverse uses including server consolidation and shared hosting. An application's performance in a virtual machine environ- ment can differ markedly from ...

2005