1. Reference and Assignments Dr. Gregor von Laszewski Dr. Lizhe Wang

2. Reference Xen: – http://www.xen.org/ – http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/research/srg/netos/xen/ – http://www.citrix.com/ VMware: http://www.vmware.com Virtual machine – Intro. to virtualization: http://www.kernelthread.com/publications/virtualization/ – J. Smith and R. Nair. Virtual machines: versatile platforms for systems and processes. The Morgan Kaufmann, 2003. – Paul Barham, Boris Dragovic, Keir Fraser, Steven Hand, Timothy L. Harris, Alex Ho, Rolf Neugebauer, Ian Pratt, Andrew Warfield: Xen and the art of virtualization. SOSP 2003: 164-177. – Virtualization wiki: http://virt.kernelnewbies.org/ – IBM developerworks virtualization guide: http://www- 128.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-linuxvirt/?ca=dgr-lnxw01Virtual- Linux – Virtualization wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtualization

3. Assignment Technical report A comparative study on popular virtual machine hypervisors – Virtual machine technology: x86 architecture, full virtualization, paravirtualization, … – Different virtual machine product: Xen, Xen server, VMware workstation/ESX server/infrastructure, UML, … – Performance discussion – Application scenario of virtual machines for cluster computing/distributed computing/grid computing Don’t copy + paste Need your own understanding and conclusion At least 10 pages