EECS 441: Resource Virtualization

Instructor:Peter A. Dinda (Office Hours: Thursdays, 2-4 or by Appointment)
Time:Winter 2007, Tuesdays and Thursdays, 12:30-2pm
Location:Ford 3rd Floor Conference Room
Course number:EECS 441
Newsgroups: cs.virt.announce
cs.virt.discuss
Mailing list: Announced in class

General Handouts

  • Syllabus (pdf)
  • Reading List (pdf)
  • A number of handouts and papers will be distributed as photocopies during class
  • Projects

  • Project Ideas (this will be handed out in class)
  • Presentation Schedule (TBD)
  • Resources

  • The Virtuoso Project within the Prescience Lab
  • VLab, the Virtual Lab.
  • Infoworld's Virtualization Report
  • Virtual Machine Monitors, Virtual Servers, Etc.
  • IBM rHype and sHype
  • Xen
  • VMWare (We have VMWare Server)
  • Microsoft Virtual PC (We also have this VMM)
  • Virtual PC For Mac is an emulator version of this product
  • Virtual Server is MS's answer to VMWare Server.
  • Plex/86 (A free VMM for Linux) and Bochs (A free emulator for Linux)
  • QEMU (A free emulator for Linux)
  • User Mode Linux (Run Linux on top of Linux)
  • VServer (Linux virtual server)
  • WINE (Windows Compatibility Layer for Linux)
  • Paper Sources
  • The Java Virtual Machine Specification, Second Edition
  • The Common Language Run-time and .NET
    Technical Paper
  • Access to IBM Journals
  • Info on the UCSD p-System, the ur-JVM
  • CiteSeer
  • Google Scholar

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    Last modified: Wed Jan 3 11:54:10 CST 2007