Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute

Chang-Won Ahn

Kwang-Won Koh

Kang-Ho Kim

Soo-Cheol Oh

Chei-Yol Kim

Young-Woo Jung

Seung-Hyub Jeon

An automatic para-virtualization apparatus of an OS kernel is provided. The automatic para-virtualization apparatus includes a kernel profiler that detects profile information from a native OS kernel, and a virtualization unit that automatically generates a para-virtualized OS kernel that operates on a para-virtualization virtual machine monitor by combining the native OS kernel and the profile information.

Apparatus and method for automatic para-virtualization of OS kernel

Disclosed herein is a method and apparatus for supporting virtualization. In the method, conversion of source code of a loadable module is initiated. A virtualization-sensitive instruction is searched for during the conversion of the source code. If the virtualization-sensitive instruction has been found, a virtualization-sensitive instruction table is generated based on the found virtualization-sensitive instruction. The virtualization-sensitive instruction is substituted with an instruction recognizable in a privileged mode, based on the generated virtualization-sensitive instruction table. The loadable module is loaded and executed in a kernel. Accordingly, the present invention supports virtualization, thus minimizing overhead occurring in full virtualization, and guaranteeing the high performance provided by para-virtualization without modifying a source.

Method and apparatus for supporting virtualization of loadable module

Disclosed herein are an apparatus and method for virtualizing Input/Output (I/O) devices. The apparatus includes a hardware device control unit, a guest Operating System (OS) unit, a virtual machine monitor unit, and a host OS unit. The hardware device control unit controls the I/O devices of a terminal. The guest OS unit runs a guest OS via a virtual machine. The virtual machine monitor unit includes shared memory and an event channel, stores an instruction and data, and transfers the stored instruction and the data to a host OS. The host OS unit performs the operation of assigning the shared memory to the virtual machine monitor unit, the operation of generating the event channel, and an operation corresponding to the I/O instruction, stores the results of performance of the operations, and performs control so that the results of the performance of the operations are sent to the guest OS unit.

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Daejeon, South Korea

Chang-Won Ahn