The software that creates a virtual machine (VM) environment in a computer (for the fundamental concept, see virtual machine). In a regular, non-virtual computer, the operating system is the master ...

This article is intended mainly for developers who are new to Xen and who want to know more about it. The first two sections, however, are general and do not deal with code. The Xen VMM (virtual ...

Editor's Note: Demand for increasing functionality and performance in systems designs continues to drive the need for more memory even as hardware engineers balance the dynamics of system capability, ...

This sounds so far out - rootkits are bad enough, but now we have to worry about virtual machine rootkits. Lab rats at Microsoft Research and the University of Michigan have teamed up to create ...

Circuits in the CPU and controller chips that enhance the running of multiple operating systems (multiple virtual machines). They deal with functions such as saving and restoring the CPU state upon ...

Rootkits that use virtualisation techniques should not present detection problems, according to researchers from Carnegie Mellon and Stanford universities in the US. Working with virtualisation ...