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Track:
Software Technology
Minitrack: Application and
Research in System Virtualization
Virtualization has recently undergone revitalization due to
increases system performance and the support for virtualization in
commodity hardware. The use of Virtualization technologies in the
past 10 years has exploded in all sectors; from home use to large
data centers. Industry is adopting virtualization to reduce
operating costs and improve reliability. Academia is looking to
improve experiential learning opportunities and building scalable
computer laboratories.
The current application of virtual technologies has a focus on
business returns (efficiency, recovery…). In order for
virtualization to realize its larger potential, it is important to
investigate:
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the emerging security implications of
virtualization,
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the new capabilities made possible through the use
of virtualization,
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the manner in which systems of the future,
including the hardware, hypervisor, operating systems, and applications,
can be designed and can collaborate to take full advantage of virtual
environments.
Topic Areas:
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How do we build virtual environments from the
hardware, hypervisor, and the application level?
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Virtual Appliances
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Efficient laboratory design
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Distributed Virtual systems
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Hypervisor security
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Hypervisor performance
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Monitoring Virtual Machine Activities, Processes,
and State. (Virtual Introspection)
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Securing Virtual Machines below the Operating
System
Virtualization employs software based hypervisor to
provide a Hardware Abstraction Layer that relays commands to the
underlying operating system (or directly to the hardware in special
cases). The design and implementation of the virtual layer provides
significant capability not available in “run on mental” deployments but
also poses very important considerations that need to be addressed.
Minitrack Co-Chairs:
Ronald C Dodge JR, (Primary Contact)
606 Thayer Road, Room 105
West Point NY, 10996
Phone: 845-938-5569
Fax: 845-938-5141
Email: ronald.dodge@usma.edu
Brian Hay
210C Chapman Building
University Of Alaska Fairbanks
Fairbanks, AK 99775-6670
Phone: 907-474-1995
Fax: 907-474-5030
Email: brian.hay@uaf.edu
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