Reference and Assignments

Dr. Gregor von Laszewski

Dr. Lizhe Wang

Reference

Xen: – http://www.xen.org/– http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/research/srg/netos/xen/– http://www.citrix.com/

VMware: http://www.vmware.com Virtual machine

– Intro. to virtualization: http://www.kernelthread.com/publications/virtualization/

– J. Smith and R. Nair. Virtual machines: versatile platforms for systems and processes. The Morgan Kaufmann, 2003.

– Paul Barham, Boris Dragovic, Keir Fraser, Steven Hand, Timothy L. Harris, Alex Ho, Rolf Neugebauer, Ian Pratt, Andrew Warfield: Xen and the art of virtualization. SOSP 2003: 164-177.

– Virtualization wiki: http://virt.kernelnewbies.org/– IBM developerworks virtualization guide:

http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-linuxvirt/?ca=dgr-lnxw01Virtual-Linux

– Virtualization wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtualization

Assignment

Technical report A comparative study on popular virtual machine

hypervisors– Virtual machine technology: x86 architecture, full

virtualization, paravirtualization, …– Different virtual machine product: Xen, Xen server, VMware

workstation/ESX server/infrastructure, UML, …– Performance discussion– Application scenario of virtual machines for cluster

computing/distributed computing/grid computing Don’t copy + paste Need your own understanding and conclusion At least 10 pages