This lecture will be held in English.

Email Lecturer: Josef Weidendorfer

Time: Every Wednesday, 14:00 - 16:30 (15 min break in the middle).

The lecture will be given as online Zoom meeting. The link will be distributed to participants via EMail. (We may move to presence with live streaming using FMI 00.13.009A. For presence, you need to have the written Ok from the lecturer to be allowed to enter the room.)

First lecture: Wednesday, November 4, 2020. Last lecture: February 3, 2021.

Exam

The written exam will take place at March 1, 2021. Time: 11:00.

NEW (9.2.21): We will do an online exam using Artemis. All registered students will be sent an email with directions, including a test exam a week before to check the tech.

Old original text (just for reference, now invalid) : Current plan is presence exam in room PH 2501 (physics building). Please be there 15 minutes before. Duration: 75 minutes. An example exam from WS10/11 can be found here (exam will be 75 minutes not 60 minutes as this one from WS10/11).

Labs

During the semester, instead of the lecture, there will be 3 labs spanning the timeframe of one lecture each, with date announced in advance. Topics for the labs are getting insights into the working of a process VM, Java JVM, and a system VM.

Schedule

Date	Topic	Comments / Material
Nov 4	Organization	Slides Organization, Slides Intro Recording (partial), Whiteboard with VM products
Nov 11	Introduction	Slides ISA Emulation, Homework 1, Recording
Nov 18	Introduction (2)	Recording
Nov 25	ISA Emulation	Homework 2, Generator for Homework 2, Reconrding, NEW (9.2.21): Example solution for Homework 2
Dec 2	ISA Emulation (2)	Recording (without discussion of Homework 2 subtask 1)
Dec 9	Lab 1: Valgrind	Task Sheet, IISWC-2006 Tutorial Slides, Valgrind 3.16.1 sources, Observer tool skeleton patch, Solution
Dec 16	ISA-Emulation (3)	Solution Homework 2 Tasks 1+2, Recording
Dec 23	(cancelled)
Jan 13	ProcessVMs (1)	Slides ProcessVMs, Recording
Jan 20	ProcessVMs (2), HLL-VMs	Slides HLL-VMs, Recording
Jan 27	HLL-VMs (2), System-VMs (1)	Slides System-VMs, Recording
Feb 3	System-VMs (2)	Recording - This marks the end of content for the exam
Feb 10	SystemVM Lab / Exam Q & A	Lab task sheet, LGuest paper, Recording last slides of System-VMs (not relevant for exam)
Mar 1	Exam	Probably online (see above)

Student Presentations

Should be 15-20 min. Topics can be motivation/techniques/benchmarks of existing VM implementations, for example (also propose your own!): related to Process-VMs: QEmu, Rosetta, related to OS-level virtualisation: Docker, Singularity. Related to HLL-VM: platform (bytecode) used in Python, .NET related to System-VMs: Xen, KVM

Planned Presentations:

• Dec 16, 2020: Docker
• Jan 13, 2021: Python Byte Code, Rosetta (2)