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In 1974, Gerald Popek and Robert Goldberg published in Communications of the ACM the seminal paper “Formal Requirements for Virtualizable Third-Generation Architectures” that defines the necessary and sufficient formal requirements to ensure that a VMM can be constructed [143]. Precisely, their theorem determines whether a given instruction set architecture (ISA) can be virtualized by a VMM using multiplexing. For any architecture that meets the hypothesis of the theorem, any operating system directly running on the hardware can also run inside a virtual machine, without modifications.
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Bugnion, E., Nieh, J., Tsafrir, D. (2017). The Popek/Goldberg Theorem. In: Hardware and Software Support for Virtualization. Synthesis Lectures on Computer Architecture. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-01753-7_2
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