Virtual Machines: Versatile Platforms for Systems and Processes (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Computer Architecture and Design)
by Jim Smith, Ravi Nair
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Author: Jim Smith, Ravi NairEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2005-06-03
ISBN: 1558609105
Number of pages: 656
Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann
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Book Review: Well-written overview of virtualization
Summary: 5 Stars
I purchased this book to get myself grounded quickly in virtualization, specifically to gain an understanding on how virtual machines are built, and the related issues. The book covers a wide variety of topics, from emulation, to machine virtualization (e.g., VMware server), hosted virtualization (e.g., VMware Fusion), binary translation, code virtualization (e.g., Java). The issues are spelled out clearly, the relevant theorems and papers are covered, and just the right amount of code/algorithms are presented to help make points clear. There are plenty of case studies, ranging from the historic to the modern day implementations (VMs are not new technology -- machine VMs date back to the early days of computing, as discussed in the book).
This is not a book for those wanting to deploy VMs, but is a book for those who want to understand issues related to their theory and implementation.
Summary of Virtual Machines: Versatile Platforms for Systems and Processes (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Computer Architecture and Design)
Virtual Machine technology applies the concept of virtualization to an entire machine, circumventing real machine compatibility constraints and hardware resource constraints to enable a higher degree of software portability and flexibility. Virtual machines are rapidly becoming an essential element in computer system design. They provide system security, flexibility, cross-platform compatibility, reliability, and resource efficiency. Designed to solve problems in combining and using major computer system components, virtual machine technologies play a key role in many disciplines, including operating systems, programming languages, and computer architecture. For example, at the process level, virtualizing technologies support dynamic program translation and platform-independent network computing. At the system level, they support multiple operating system environments on the same hardware platform and in servers.Historically, individual virtual machine techniques have been developed within the specific disciplines that employ them (in some cases they aren't even referred to as "virtual machines"), making it difficult to see their common underlying relationships in a cohesive way. In this text, Smith and Nair take a new approach by examining virtual machines as a unified discipline. Pulling together cross-cutting technologies allows virtual machine implementations to be studied and engineered in a well-structured manner. Topics include instruction set emulation, dynamic program translation and optimization, high level virtual machines (including Java and CLI), and system virtual machines for both single-user systems and servers.
* Examines virtual machine technologies across the disciplines that use them-operating systems, programming languages and computer architecture-defining a new and unified discipline.
* Reviewed by principle researchers at Microsoft, HP, and by other industry research groups.
* Written by two authors who combine several decades of expertise in computer system research and development, both in academia and industry.
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