From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Rich Persaud Subject: [history] VMM Quadrants Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2005 15:01:01 -0500 Message-ID: <4228BE7D.6050603@xensource.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: xen-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Errors-To: xen-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: To: xen-devel@lists.sourceforge.net List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org I am new to VMM internals, but have experience in database (Sybase) internals and data center infrastructure. RDBMS engines that run on many OSes go out of their way to reimplement OS facilities (e.g. memory management, threads, disk and network I/O) to insulate their performance from OS intermediation. The dispelling of newbie ignorance can sometimes yield good diagrams for future newbies. Do you have recommendations for research papers with diagrams/history of virtualization implementations? I'm looking for high-level overviews with conceptual models that are low-level accurate. Two overview papers: Denali, VMware, User-Mode Linux (is Fig. 3 correct? where would Xen go?) http://www.eecs.umich.edu/techreports/cse/2002/CSE-TR-465-02.pdf VM/370, Denali, Xen: http://www.robertwrose.com/vita/rose-virtualization.pdf Is there a definitive bibliography of web-accessible virtualization papers? Rich ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595&alloc_id=14396&op=click