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In a virtual machine, there is much requirement for supporting realtime characteristic. To support realtime task in a virtual machine, we have to monitor and control resources including CPU, memory, I/O device. Recently several monitor tools are released running on virtual machines including Xenmon. However, it has limitations on supporting detailed information for monitoring realtime workloads. Furthermore, frequent access to trace buffer severely degrades the overall system performance. In this paper, we propose a light-weight monitor tools for Xen virtual machine, which provides workloads monitoring with high accuracy, and users can monitor lots of system information with low overhead. We also provide GUI tools for user friendly purpose.
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This research was financially supported by the Ministry of Education, Science Technology (MEST) and National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) through the Human Resource Training Project for Regional Innovation and Basic Science Research Program through the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) funded by the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology (2011-0006040).
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Kim, B.K., Jang, J.H., Hur, K.W., Lee, J.G., Ko, Y.W. (2012). Monitoring and Feedback Tools for Realtime Workloads for Xen Virtual Machine. In: Kim, K., Ahn, S. (eds) Proceedings of the International Conference on IT Convergence and Security 2011. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 120. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-2911-7_13
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