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"It’s an app. It’s a hypervisor. It’s a hypapp.": Design and Implementation of an eXtensible and Modular Hypervisor Framework (CMU-CyLab-12-014)

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posted on 2012-06-26, 00:00 authored by Amit Vasudevan, Jonathan M. McCune, James Newsome

This paper presents our efforts in developing XMHF, an eXtensible and Modular Hypervisor Framework. XMHF takes a developer-centric approach to hypervisor design and implementation, and strives to be a comprehensible and flexible platform for performing hypervisor research and development. XMHF encapsulates common hypervisor core functionality in a framework that allows others to build custom hypervisor-based solutions (called "hypapps") while freeing them from a considerable amount of wheel-reinventing that is often associated with such efforts. We are encouraged by the end result – a clean, barebones hypervisor framework with desirable performance characteristics and an architecture amenable to formal analysis.

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2012-06-26

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