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Hardware-supported virtualization on ARM

Authors

Prashant Varanasi and Gernot Heiser

NICTA

UNSW

Open Kernel Labs

Abstract

ARM, the dominant processor architecture for mobile devices, has recently added hardware support for virtualization. We have designed and implemented what we believe is the first hypervisor supporting pure virtualization using those extensions. We describe our approach and report our initial experience with the architecture.

BibTeX Entry

  @inproceedings{Varanasi_Heiser_11,
    address          = {Shanghai, China},
    author           = {Varanasi, Prashant and Heiser, Gernot},
    booktitle        = {Asia-Pacific Workshop on Systems (APSys)},
    month            = jul,
    pages            = {5 pages},
    paperurl         = {https://trustworthy.systems/publications/nicta_full_text/4938.pdf},
    publisher        = {ACM},
    title            = {Hardware-Supported Virtualization on {ARM}},
    year             = {2011}
  }

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