Hypervisor-based fault tolerance

1 February 1996

journal article
Published by Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) in ACM Transactions on Computer Systems

Vol. 14 (1) , 80-107
https://doi.org/10.1145/225535.225538

Abstract

Protocols to implement a fault-tolerant computing system are described. These protocols augment the hypervisor of a virtual-machine manager and coordinate a primary virtual machine with its backup. No modifications to the hardware, operating system, or application programs are required. A prototype system was constructed for HP's PA-RISC instruction-set architecture. Even though the prototype was not carefully tuned, it ran programs about a factor of 2 slower than a bare machine would.

Keywords

This publication has 8 references indexed in Scilit:

The process group approach to reliable distributed computing
Communications of the ACM, 1993
Limits to low-latency communication on high-speed networks
ACM Transactions on Computer Systems, 1993
Implementing fault-tolerant services using the state machine approach: a tutorial
ACM Computing Surveys, 1990
A software instruction counter
Published by Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) ,1989
Fail-stop processors
ACM Transactions on Computer Systems, 1983
Time, clocks, and the ordering of events in a distributed system
Communications of the ACM, 1978
The PDP-11 virtual machine architecture
Published by Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) ,1975
A virtual machine time-sharing system
IBM Systems Journal, 1970