微软虚拟机管理程序、虚拟化堆栈和设备虚拟化架构.ppt

Hypervisor, Virtualization Stack, And Device Virtualization Architectures Mike NeilProduct Unit ManagerWindows VirtualizationMicrosoft Corporation Agenda Architecture introduction Hypervisor architecture Device virtualization architecture Virtualization stack architecture Summary Windows Virtualization Architecture Agenda Architecture introduction Hypervisor architecture Device virtualization architecture Virtualization stack architecture Summary Hypervisor Design Goals Strong Isolation Security Performance Virtualization support …and … Simplicity Restrict activities to monitoringand enforcing Where possible, push policy up Physical Hardware The hypervisor restricts itself to managing a minimum set of hardware Processors Local APICs Constant-ratesystem counter System physicaladdress space Focus is on scheduling and isolation Physical Hardware In Windows virtualization, the parent partition manages the rest IHV drivers Processor power management Device hot add and?removal New drivers are not?required HypercallsLow level API Guests communicate with the hypervisor via?hypercalls Hypervisor equivalent of a syscall Detected via CPUID Configured via MSR Simple format One input page, one output page Specify pages by physical address,then jump to known address HypercallsHigh level APIs Higher level abstractions are?available in Windowspartitions WinHv.sys providesa C language wrapper VMBus.sys providescross-partition communication services Virtualization stack provides WMI interfaces for configuring?children Layered Hypervisor Architecture Agenda Architecture introduction Hypervisor architecture Device virtualization architecture Virtualization stack architecture Summary Device Virtualization Definitions Virtual Device (VDev) A software module that provides a point of configuration and control over an I/O path for a partition Virtualization Service Provider (VSP) A server component (in a parent or other partition) that handlesI/O requests Can pass I/O requests