CS-C3140 - Operating Systems, 07.09.2020-09.12.2020

Topic outline

• Week 8
  Resources for the seventh week of the course on virtual machines.

  
  
  

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    Exercise round on A+ URL

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    Link to the exercises and assignments on A+.
    

  • Slides and podcasts

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    Virtualization overview File

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    Slides about:

    • virtualization: overview and taxonomy;
    • different types of virtualization: application-level virtual machines, platform virtualization, OS-level virtualization, desktop virtualization;
      
    • from workstations to data centers: cloud computing and virtualization as key technology.

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    Virtualization overview File

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    Podcast on virtualization overview.

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    Virtualization overview: transcript File

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    Transcript of the podcast on virtualization overview.
    

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    Platform virtualization File

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    Slides about:

    • platform virtualization: background and overview;
    • architectural aspects: virtualizable platforms and para-virtualization;
      
    • hardware-assisted virtualization and major virtualization software.

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    Platform virtualization File

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    Podcast on platform virtualization.

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    Platform virtualization: transcript File

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    Transcript of the podcast on platform virtualization.
    

  • Recommended resources

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    Virtual machines URL

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    Chapter 14 of the the book Operating Systems: Internals and Design Principles by William Stallings introduces virtualization and. You can access the seventh edition of the book through Aalto's ProQuest subscription and read only Section 14.1 Approaches to Virtualization and Section 14.2 Processor Issues. You can glance through the rest of the sections too to better understand some concepts mentioned in the slides.

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    Virtualization: Issues, security threats, and solutions URL

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    Michael Pearce, Sherali Zeadally, and Ray Hunt, "Virtualization: Issues, security threats, and solutions'', ACM Computing Surveys 45(2):17, February 2013. Read only the first two sections of the article, or only Section 2.4 System Virtualization and Section 2.5 Virtualizing Nonvirtualizable Architectures if you have read Chapter 14 of Stalling's operating systems book.