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Barham and colleagues: Xen and the art of virtualization

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Operating systems and concurrency · METHOD

Reference score155,000Provisional editorial estimate of this exact contribution; its grade is assessed separately.

What changed

Presented Xen paravirtualization and evaluated resource management and performance across commodity OS workloads.

Scientific scope

The record is the exact nine-author SOSP 2003 paper. Its performance and isolation evidence concerns the evaluated Xen design and workloads; it does not encompass all virtualization, containers, cloud deployment or later Xen versions.

Evidence

The linked sources identify this contribution and its scope. WRS has not independently reconstructed the scientific claims. The record is the exact nine-author SOSP 2003 paper. Its performance and isolation evidence concerns the evaluated Xen design and workloads; it does not encompass all virtualization, containers, cloud deployment or later Xen versions.

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Provisional WRS assessment, edition 2026-10-16.1. Independent expert calibration is pending. This grade does not certify correctness or assign ownership.

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