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The Virtualization Reality: Are hypervisors the new foundation for system software?

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A number of important challenges are associated with the deployment and configuration of contemporary computing infrastructure. Given the variety of operating systems and their many versions—including the often-specific configurations required to accommodate the wide range of popular applications—it has become quite a conundrum to establish and manage such systems.

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            Queue  Volume 4, Issue 10
            Computer Architecture
            December-January 2006-2007
            46 pages
            ISSN:1542-7730
            EISSN:1542-7749
            DOI:10.1145/1189276
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