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  • Resources for the eighth week of the course on virtual machines.

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      Exercise round on A+ Verkko-osoite

      Link to the exercises and assignments on A+.

    • Slides

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      Virtualization overview Tiedosto PDF

      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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      Platform virtualization Tiedosto PDF

      Slides about:

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

    • Podcasts

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      Virtualization overview Verkko-osoite

      Podcast on virtualization overview.

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      Platform virtualization Verkko-osoite

      Podcast on platform virtualization.

    • Reading material

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      Virtual machines Verkko-osoite

      Chapter 14 of the the book Operating Systems: Internals and Design Principles by William Stallings introduces virtualization and hardware related issues. You can access the eighth edition of the book through Aalto's ProQuest subscription and read only the beginning of the chapter, until Section 14.2 Processor Issues (included)You can glance through the rest of the sections too to better understand the concepts mentioned in the slides.

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      Virtualization: Issues, security threats, and solutions Verkko-osoite

      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, with particular attention to Section 2.4 System Virtualization and Section 2.5 Virtualizing Nonvirtualizable Architectures.