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Windows Internals, Part 2, 7th Edition
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Windows Internals, Part 2, 7th Edition

by Andrea Allievi, Alex Ionescu, David A. Solomon, Kate Chase, Mark E. Russinovich
September 2021
Intermediate to advanced
912 pages
34h 23m
English
Microsoft Press
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Chapter 9Virtualization technologies

One of the most important technologies used for running multiple operating systems on the same physical machine is virtualization. At the time of this writing, there are multiple types of virtualization technologies available from different hardware manufacturers, which have evolved over the years. Virtualization technologies are not only used for running multiple operating systems on a physical machine, but they have also become the basics for important security features like the Virtual Secure Mode (VSM) and Hypervisor-Enforced Code Integrity (HVCI), which can’t be run without a hypervisor.

In this chapter, we give an overview of the Windows virtualization solution, called Hyper-V. Hyper-V is composed of ...

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