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What is Shadow Page Table

Chapter 105
Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology, Third Edition
The shadow page table is a data structure that is actively maintained and re-filled by the VMM. The shadow page table mirrors what the guest is doing in terms of its own page tables and in terms of what the VMM translates the guest physical address to the host physical address.
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Virtualization as the Catalyst for Cloud Computing
Natarajan Meghanathan (Department of Computer Science, Jackson State University, USA)
Copyright: © 2015 |Pages: 15
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-5888-2.ch105
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