Dear Interested, Please note that slides will NOT be available soon, as this work is to be submitted as a paper.
Orna On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 9:44 AM, Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda <ladyp...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Monday, December 21st (TOMORROW) at 18:30, Haifux will gather to > hear Muli Ben-Yehuda of IBM Research - Haifa talk about > > Nested x86 Virtualization > > Abstract > > Server virtualization has been widely adopted by the market, and the > number of servers running virtual machines is increasing daily. As > machine virtualization gains popularity, the hypervisor itself, along > with its management stack, becomes a basic and required part of the > system. The next natural evolution phase in the virtualization > abstraction chain is to view the hypervisor as part of the user > workload, and to be able to run multiple hypervisors inside virtual > machines, each with its own set of nested guest virtual machines. > > We present an analysis of nested virtualization in hardware platforms > with only a single level of hardware virtualization support such as > the x86 platform. We then present an architecture for extending a > single level of memory management virtualization support to handle > nested virtualization, which is critical for high performance. > Building on this, we then present the first implementation of > high-performance nested virtualization on Intel x86-based systems. Our > implementation is part of the Linux/KVM hypervisor, can run multiple > other hypervisors (e.g., VMware's) and can achieve performance that is > within 5% of single-level (non-nested) virtualization. > > The talk will begin by covering the basics of single-level x86 > virtualization (CPU, MMU, and I/O). Some familiarity with Linux and > KVM (http://haifux.org/lectures/152/) is assumed, but is not > mandatory. Source code will be shown. > > Joint work with Ben-Ami Yassour, Orit Wasserman, Abel Gordon, Zvi > Dubitzki, Michael Factor (IBM Research -- Haifa), Mike Day, and > Anthony Liguori (IBM Linux Technology Center). > ================================================================= > > We meet in Taub (CS Faculty) building, room 6. For instructions see: > http://www.haifux.org/where.html > > Attendance is free, and you are all invited! > > ============================================================ > > Future Haifux events include: > > 04/01/10 The Offline Scheduler: Raz Ben-Yehuda > 18/01/10 The FOSS Community as a Social Phenomenon: Yaron Dishon > 15/02/10 VoIP in Linux: Rami Rosen > > ============================================================ > > We are always interested in hearing your talks and ideas. If you wish to > give a talk, hold a discussion, or just plan some event haifux might be > interested in, please contact us at webmas...@haifux.org > _______________________________________________ Haifux mailing list Haifux@haifux.org http://hamakor.org.il/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haifux