V-node, 786

VA-backed VM, Hyper-V, 1008

VAD (see Virtual Address Descriptor)

ValidDataLength Win32 call, 979

Vampire tap, 582

VAX, 17

VBS (see Virtualization-Based Security)

VDEVs (see Virtual Devices)

Vendor lock-in, 503

Vertical integration, 509

VFS (see Virtual File System)

VHD (see Virtual Hard Disk)

VID (see Virtualization Infrastructure Driver)

Vid.sys, 1006

Virtual address, 193

• guest, 495

Virtual address allocation, Windows, 958

Virtual address descriptor, Windows, 962

Virtual address space, 193

Virtual address-space representation, 753–754

Virtual core, 541

Virtual device, 1007

Virtual disk, 485

• Windows, 980

Virtual file system, 298–301, 720

Virtual function, 500

Virtual hard disk, Windows, 1014

Virtual hardware platform, 515–517

Virtual i-node, 786

Virtual kernel mode, 486

Virtual machine, 69–72, 485–486

• Java, 73

• secure, 483

Virtual machine interface, 492

Virtual machine management service, 1007

Virtual machine migration, 503–504

Virtual machine monitor, 69, 478

Virtual machines on multicore CPUs, 501

Virtual memory, 27, 50, 192, 192–207

• Linux, 753–757

• Windows, 958–969

Virtual pagefile, Windows, 974

Virtual processor, 896

Virtual secure mode, 897

Virtual trust level, Windows, 1017

VirtualAlloc Win32 call, 963, 1009

Virtualbox, 481

Virtualization, 477–524, 478

• cost, 489–490

• efficient, 486–490

• full, 484

• history, 480–482

• I/O, 497–500

• memory, 493–497

• OS-level, 504–507

• process-level, 484

• requirements, 480–482

• research, 523–524

• Windows, 1003–1035

• x86, 509–511

Virtualization infrastructure driver, Hyper-V, 1006

Virtualization stack, 1003

• Hyper-V, 1006

Virtualization technology, 483

Virtualization-based security, 879

• Windows, 897

Virtualizing the unvirtualizable, 487–489

VirtuAlloc Win32 call, 975

Virus, 607

Vista, Windows, 876–877

VM exit, 495

VM/370, 69, 480

Vmalloc system call, 753

VMI (see Virtual Machine Interface)

VMM (see Virtual Machine Monitor)

Vmmem, 1009

VMMS (see Virtual Machine Management Service)

VMotion, 508

VMS, 874, 894, 926

VMware, 507–423

• history, 507–508

VMware Workstation, 485, 508–508

• ACM SOftware System Award, 509

• evolution, 520–521

• solution overview, 511

VMX, 511

Volume shadow copy, Windows, 981

Virtualization-based security, Windows, 1017–1018

VSM (see Virtual Secure Mode)

VT (see Virtualization Technology)

VTL (see Virtual Trust Level)

Vulnerabilities, Windows, 1027–1031

Vulnerability, 606