Partitioning For Virtual Machine Efficiency
L.D. Anderson, Brendan Manning, L.J. Slechta, T.O. Wolff · 2005
The virtual machine concept, enabling individual users to concurrently access a computer's resources, has long been accepted for business applications and utilized by software implementors. Current implementations of the virtual machine concept have been achieved almost exclusively through the use of software (e.g., virtual machine monitors) Use of the concept for high performance, application processes has been constrained by the overhead resulting from the software monitor. This includes time required for application process dispatch and communication between the associated virtual machines whenever cooperation is required to meet a system objective.