Constructing Services with Interposable Virtual Hardware

Virtual machine monitors (VMMs) have enjoyed a resurgence in popularity, since VMMs can help to solve difficult systems problems like migration, fault tolerance, code sandboxing, intrusion detection, and debugging. Recently, several researchers have proposed novel applications of virtual machine technology, such as Internet Suspend/Resume [25, 31] and transparent OS-level rollback and replay [13]. Unfortunately, current VMMs do not export enough functionality to budding developers of such applications, forcing them either to reverse engineer pieces of a black-box VMM, or to reimplement significant portions of a VMM. In this paper, we present the design, implementation, and evaluation of

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2004
• Where: NSDI
• Authors: Andrew Whitaker, Richard S. Cox, Marianne Shaw, Steven D. Gribble
• Keywords: Computer Networks, NSDI 2004, Virtual Machine Monitor, Virtual Machine Technology, Virtual Machines