Memory resource management in VMware ESX server

@misc{citeulike:1655133, abstract = {VMware ESX Server is a thin software layer designed to multiplex hardware resources efficiently among virtual machines running unmodified commodity operating systems. This paper introduces several novel ESX Server mechanisms and policies for managing memory. A ballooning technique reclaims the pages considered least valuable by the operating system running in a virtual machine. An idle memory tax achieves efficient memory utilization while maintaining performance isolation guarantees....}, author = {Waldspurger, C. }, citeulike-article-id = {1655133}, keywords = {2002, memory, osdi, vmm, vmware}, posted-at = {2007-09-14 10:09:03}, priority = {4}, title = {Memory resource management in VMware ESX server}, url = {http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/waldspurger02memory.html}, year = {2002} }

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