CS-C3140 - Operating Systems, Lecture, 13.9.2021-15.12.2021

Topic outline

• Week 8
  Resources for the eighth 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

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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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    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.

  • Podcasts

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    Virtualization overview URL

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    Podcast on virtualization overview.

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    Platform virtualization URL

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    Podcast on platform virtualization.

  • Reading material

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