Critical performance consideration – VMM scheduler
The virtual machine monitor (VMM) is a thin layer that provides a virtual x86 hardware environment to the guest operating system on a virtual machine. This hardware includes a virtual CPU, virtual I/O devices, and timers. The VMM leverages key technologies in the VMkernel, such as scheduling, memory management, and the network and storage stacks.
Each VMM is devoted to one virtual machine. To run multiple virtual machines, the VMkernel starts multiple VMM instances, also known as worlds. Each VMM instance partitions and shares the CPU, memory, and I/O devices to successfully virtualize the system. The VMM can be implemented by using hardware virtualization, software virtualization (binary translation), ...
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