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Friendly Virtual Machines Leveraging a Feedback-Control Model for Application Adaptation Yuting Zhang Azer Bestavros Mina Guirguis Ibrahim Matta Richard West {danazh, best, msg, matta, richwest}@ Computer Science Department, Boston University, Boston MA ABSTRACT has fueled research in the area of virtualization [5, 19, 24, 27, With the increased use of “Virtual Machines” (VMs) as vehicles 28, 31], whereby applications could run on a different “Vir- that isolate applications running on the same host, it is neces- tual Machine” (VM) .Since VMs can be trusted, in the sense sary to devise techniques that enable multiple VMs to share un- of “sandboxing” the untrusted applications and services they derlying resources both fairly and efficiently .To that end, one contain, virtualization is seen as a promising approach for pro- common approach is to deploy complex resource management viding security and protection .Indeed, the use of VMs has techniques in the hosting infrastructure .Alternately, in this enabled services, possibly deployed by untrusted sources, to be paper, we advocate the use of self-adaptation in the VMs them- injected into a third party hosting infrastructure selves based on feedback about resource usage and availability Motivation: The use of VMs as an architecture that pro- Consequently, we define a “Friendly” VM (FVM) to be a vir- motes safety and security through isolation does not mitigate tual machine that adjusts