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Virtualize everything but time

Broomhead et al., 2010

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Document ID
2392731566426976515
Author
Broomhead T
Cremean L
Ridoux J
Veitch D
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9th USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI 10)

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We propose a new timekeeping architecture for virtualized systems, in the context of Xen. Built upon a feedforward based RADclock synchronization algorithm, it ensures that the clocks in each OS sharing the hardware derive from a single central clock in a resource …
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