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E.: Automated verification of a small hypervisor
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| Venue: | In: Proceedings of VSTTE (2010 |
| Citations: | 10 - 1 self |
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@INPROCEEDINGS{Alkassar_e.:automated,
author = {Eyad Alkassar and Mark A. Hillebr and Wolfgang J. Paul and Elena Petrova},
title = {E.: Automated verification of a small hypervisor},
booktitle = {In: Proceedings of VSTTE (2010},
year = {}
}
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Abstract
Abstract. Hypervisors are system software programs that virtualize the architecture they run on. They are typically small, safety-critical, and hard to debug, which makes them a feasible and interesting target for formal verification. Previous functional verifications of system software were all based on interactive theorem proving, requiring substantial human effort complemented by expert prover knowledge. In this paper we present the first functional verification of a small hypervisor using VCC, an automatic verifier for (suitably annotated) C developed at Microsoft. To achieve this goal we introduce necessary system verification techniques, such as accurate modeling of software/hardware interaction and simulation proofs in a first-order logic setting. 1
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small hypervisor automated verification simulation proof interesting target interactive theorem proving automatic verifier necessary system verification technique formal verification system software accurate modeling previous functional verification first functional verification expert prover knowledge first-order logic setting system software program substantial human effort software hardware interaction
