Title :
Speeding up packet I/O in virtual machines
Author :
Rizzo, Luigi ; Lettieri, Giuseppe ; Maffione, Vincenzo
Author_Institution :
Università di Pisa, Italy
Abstract :
Most of the work on VM network performance has focused so far on bulk TCP traffic, which covers classical applications of virtualization. Completely new “paravirtualized devices” (Xenfront, VIRTIO, vmxnet) have been designed and implemented to improve network throughput.
Keywords :
Hardware; Linux; Metals; Registers; Software; Virtual machine monitors; Virtualization; Software Switches; Virtual Machines; netmap;
Conference_Titel :
Architectures for Networking and Communications Systems (ANCS), 2013 ACM/IEEE Symposium on
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA, USA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4799-1640-5
DOI :
10.1109/ANCS.2013.6665175
