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Implementing hardware-supported virtualization in OKL4 on ARM

Authors

Prashant Varanasi

    School of Computer Science and Engineering
    UNSW,
    Sydney 2052, Australia

Abstract

Virtualization is an already popular trend in the desktop and server markets, and is becoming increasingly important on mobile devices, where ARM is the leading architecture. This thesis presents the design and implementation of a hypervisor integrating ARM's recently announced virtualization extensions. This hypervisor is capable of running multiple concurrent unmodified guest operating systems such as Linux, and supporting efficient communication between guests. Benchmarking in ARM's Fast Models simulator show that virtualization overheads are small, although true overheads cannot be measured till hardware or a timing-accurate simulator is released.

BibTeX Entry

  @mastersthesis{Varanasi:be,
    address          = {Sydney, Australia},
    author           = {Prashant Varanasi},
    month            = nov,
    paperUrl         = {https://trustworthy.systems/publications/theses_public/10/Varanasi%3Abe.pdf},
    school           = {School of Computer Science and Engineering},
    title            = {Implementing Hardware-supported Virtualization in {OKL4} on {ARM}},
    year             = {2010}
  }

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