Dynamic Adaptation using Xen
Thomas J. Naughton, Geoffroy R. Vallee, Stephen L. Scott · OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information) · 2007
The topic of virtualization has received renewed attention. Xen is a popular open source type-I hypervisor. The Xen hypervisor currently has limited capabilities for runtime modification to the core hypervisor, which impairs research into dynamic adaptation for system-level virtualization. This paper discusses recent investigations into the feasibility of extending Xen to support runtime adaptation for core hypervisor service, e.g., scheduler.