Virtual machines have the potential for adding many beneficial capabilities to computer systems, for example, resulting in

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Virtual machines have the potential for adding many beneficial capabilities to computer systems, for example, resulting in improved total cost of ownership (TCO) or availability. Could VMs be used to provide the following capabilities? If so, how could they facilitate this?
a. Make it easy to consolidate a large number of applications running on many old uniprocessor servers onto a single higher-performance CMP-based server?
b. Limit damage caused by computer viruses, worms, or spyware?
c. Higher performance in memory-intensive applications with large memory footprints?
d. Dynamically provision extra capacity for peak application loads?
e. Run a legacy application on old operating systems on modern machines?
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Computer Architecture A Quantitative Approach

ISBN: 978-0123704900

4th edition

Authors: John L. Hennessy, David A. Patterson

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