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Tabla de Contenidos: “…6.6 DEADLOCK PREVENTION -- 6.6.1 Attacking the Mutual-Exclusion Condition -- 6.6.2 Attacking the Hold-and-Wait Condition -- 6.6.3 Attacking the No-Preemption Condition -- 6.6.4 Attacking the Circular Wait Condition -- 6.7 OTHER ISSUES -- 6.7.1 Two-Phase Locking -- 6.7.2 Communication Deadlocks -- 6.7.3 Livelock -- 6.7.4 Starvation -- 6.8 RESEARCH ON DEADLOCKS -- 6.9 SUMMARY -- 7 VIRTUALIZATION AND THE CLOUD -- 7.1 HISTORY -- 7.2 REQUIREMENTS FOR VIRTUALIZATION -- 7.3 TYPE 1 AND TYPE 2 HYPERVISORS -- 7.4 TECHNIQUES FOR EFFICIENT VIRTUALIZATION -- 7.4.1 Virtualizing the Unvirtualizable -- 7.4.2 The Cost of Virtualization -- 7.5 ARE HYPERVISORS MICROKERNELS DONE RIGHT? …”

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