Virtualization

In an attempt to kickstart writing , I decided to cherry pick few from old home and start this blog. I collected bunch of papers, books while trying to understand the virtualization over sometime. I have just put them together in one place for people to refer to.

Core

 ESA/390 Interpretive execution arch, foundation for VM/ESA

 Xen & art of Virtualization  

Virtual distributed Environments in Shared infrastructure

 Intel Virtualization technology

Virtual Machine Monitors: Current Technology and Future Trends (Rosenblum, Garfinkel)

Other

Design and Implementation of the Second Extended Filesystem (Card) 

 The Google Filesystem (Ghemavat)

Zebra Striped FS

 Frangipani
Books

Smith and Nair, Virtual Machines: Versatile Platforms for Systems and  Processes, Morgan Kaufman, 2005

Wolf and Halter, Virtualization: From the Desktop to the Enterprise, APress 2005

Links

• Virtual PC Guy’s WebLog
• vmtoolkit.com
• xen
• Virtuoso Project
• VMWare (early mover)
• Microsoft Virtual PC (connectix? ++)
• User Mode Linux (Run Linux on top of Linux)
• VServer (Linux virtual server)
• Plex/86 (A free VMM for Linux) and Bochs (A free emulator for Linux)
• QEMU (A free emulator for Linux)
• IBM rHype and sHype
• DeskQView?

Bottomline – this is not groundbreaking new stuff. Only recently since last 3-4 years it has caught the imagination of consolidators/dev-test teams/data center folks etc.  Only about tiny 5% of the servers have been virtualized if you see the analyst reports.

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