Session details: Virtual machine monitors

It is widely believed that the use of a virtual machine monitor (VMM) is at least as secure, if not more secure than separate systems. A recent Information Week survey [6] reports that 55% of responding business technology professionals believe that a ...

As server consolidation using virtual machines (VMs) is carried out, software aging of virtual machine monitors (VMMs) is becoming critical. Since a VMM is fundamental software for running VMs, its performance degradation or crash failure affects all ...

To overcome the poor scalability and extensibility of traditional virtual machine monitors that partition a single physical machine into multiple virtual machines, the Denali VMM uses paravirtualization to promote scalability and hardware interposition ...