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VCC: A Practical System for Verifying Concurrent C
Ernie Cohen,Markus Dahlweid,Mark Hillebrand,Dirk Leinenbach,Michal Moskal,Thomas Santen,Wolfram Schulte,Stephan Tobies +7 more
- Vol. 5674, pp 23-42
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This paper motivates VCC, describes the verification methodology, the architecture of VCC is described, and the experience using VCC to verify the Microsoft Hyper-V hypervisor is reported on.Abstract:
VCC is an industrial-strength verification environment for low-level concurrent system code written in C. VCC takes a program (annotated with function contracts, state assertions, and type invariants) and attempts to prove the correctness of these annotations. It includes tools for monitoring proof attempts and constructing partial counterexample executions for failed proofs. This paper motivates VCC, describes our verification methodology, describes the architecture of VCC, and reports on our experience using VCC to verify the Microsoft Hyper-V hypervisor.read more
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RockSalt: better, faster, stronger SFI for the x86
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Verifying the Microsoft Hyper-V Hypervisor with VCC
Dirk Leinenbach,Thomas Santen +1 more
TL;DR: A brief overview on the Hypervisor with a special focus on verification related challenges this kind of low-level software poses is given, and how the design of VCC addresses these challenges is discussed.
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