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Xen and the Art of Virtualization Revisited

Abstract: 
This is a talk in three parts. I'll give a summary of the Xen story so far, looking at how Xen made the transition from research project to enterprise software and the many challenges along the way. Next, I'll look at why virtualization is such a hot topic in IT and the failings of common operating systems that have led to this. I'll then look at how Xen has evolved since the 2004 SOSP paper, seeing how paravirtualization and software/hardware co-design have helped reduce the overhead of virtualization. In particular, I will look at network interfaces to see how what was once a high-overhead device to virtualize has been tamed.

Ian Pratt, Senior Lecturer, University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory, and Fellow, King's College Cambridge

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@inproceedings {268296,
author = {Ian Pratt},
title = {Xen and the Art of Virtualization Revisited},
booktitle = {5th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI 08)},
year = {2008},
address = {San Francisco, CA},
url = {https://www.usenix.org/conference/nsdi-08/xen-and-art-virtualization-revisited},
publisher = {USENIX Association},
month = apr,
}
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