Yaron Weinsberg, Danny Dolev, et al.
EuroSys 2008
In classical machine virtualization, a hypervisor runs multiple operating systems simultaneously, each on its own virtual machine. In nested virtualization, a hypervisor can run multiple other hypervisors with their associated virtual machines. As operating systems gain hypervisor functionality-Microsoft Windows 7 already runs Windows XP in a virtual machine-nested virtualization will become necessary in hypervisors that wish to host them. We present the design, implementation, analysis, and evaluation of high-performance nested virtualization on Intel x86-based systems. The Turtles project, which is part of the Linux/KVM hypervisor, runs multiple unmodified hypervisors (e.g., KVM and VMware) and operating systems (e.g., Linux and Windows). Despite the lack of architectural support for nested virtualization in the x86 architecture, it can achieve performance that is within 6-8% of single-level (non-nested) virtualization for common workloads, through multi-dimensional paging for MMU virtualization and multi-level device assignment for I/O virtualization.
Yaron Weinsberg, Danny Dolev, et al.
EuroSys 2008
Muli Ben-Yehuda, Eric Van Hensbergen, et al.
EuroSys 2008
Abel Gordon, Nadav Har'El, et al.
SYSTOR 2012
Rüdiger Kapitza, Matthias Schunter, et al.
OSDI 2010