TY - GEN
T1 - Virtualizing system and ordinary services in Windows-based OS-level virtual machines
AU - Shan, Zhiyong
AU - Chiueh, Tzi Cker
AU - Wang, Xin
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - OS-level virtualization incurs smaller start-up and run-time overhead than HAL-based virtualization and thus forms an important building block for developing fault-tolerant and intrusion-tolerant applications. A complete implementation of OS-level virtualization on the Windows platform requires virtualization of Windows services, such as system services like the Remote Procedure Call Server Service (RPCSS), because they are essentially extensions of the kernel. As Windows system services work very differently from their counterparts on UNIX-style OS, i.e., daemons, and many of their implementation details are proprietary, virtualizing Windows system services turned out to be the most challenging technical barrier for OS-level virtualization for the Windows platform. In this paper, we describe a general technique to virtualize Windows services, and demonstrate its effectiveness by applying it to successfully virtualize a set of important Windows system services and ordinary services on different versions of Windows OS, including RPCSS, DcomLaunch, IIS service group, Tlntsvr, MySQL, Apache2.2, CiSvc, ImapiService, etc.
AB - OS-level virtualization incurs smaller start-up and run-time overhead than HAL-based virtualization and thus forms an important building block for developing fault-tolerant and intrusion-tolerant applications. A complete implementation of OS-level virtualization on the Windows platform requires virtualization of Windows services, such as system services like the Remote Procedure Call Server Service (RPCSS), because they are essentially extensions of the kernel. As Windows system services work very differently from their counterparts on UNIX-style OS, i.e., daemons, and many of their implementation details are proprietary, virtualizing Windows system services turned out to be the most challenging technical barrier for OS-level virtualization for the Windows platform. In this paper, we describe a general technique to virtualize Windows services, and demonstrate its effectiveness by applying it to successfully virtualize a set of important Windows system services and ordinary services on different versions of Windows OS, including RPCSS, DcomLaunch, IIS service group, Tlntsvr, MySQL, Apache2.2, CiSvc, ImapiService, etc.
KW - service virtualization
KW - virtual machine
KW - windows service
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/79959298793
U2 - 10.1145/1982185.1982309
DO - 10.1145/1982185.1982309
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:79959298793
SN - 9781450301138
T3 - Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing
SP - 579
EP - 583
BT - 26th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, SAC 2011
T2 - 26th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, SAC 2011
Y2 - 21 March 2011 through 24 March 2011
ER -