Virtualization Techniques (IN2125) ()
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Term | Wintersemester 2019/20 |
Language of instruction | English |
Dates | See TUMonline |
Description
This lecture will be held in English.
Email Lecturer: Josef Weidendorfer
Time: Every Wednesday, 14:00 - 16:30 (15 min break in the middle) in FMI 00.13.009A.
First lecture: Wednesday, October 16, 2019. Last lecture: February 5, 2020.
Exam
The written exam will be on 27.2.2020 (Thursday), 13:30 - 14:45. Location: 1350, Ludwig-Burmester-Zeichensaal (5503.01.350).
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 |
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Oct 16 | Organization | Slides Organization |
Oct 23 | Introduction | Slides Introduction, Homework 1 |
Oct 30 | ISA Emulation | Slides ISA Emulation, Homework 2, C code for Homework 2 |
Nov 6 | ISA Emulation (2), Process-VMs | |
Nov 13 | Lab Valgrind | 14:00 s.t. - 17:00 Lab1 Tasks, Valgrind 3.15 sources, Observer Skeleton Patch, VG Tutorial Slides (2006) |
Nov 20 | (cancelled) | |
Nov 27 | ISA Emulation (3) | |
Dec 4 | ISA Emulation (4) | Solution HW2, Task 3 |
Dec 12 | Process-VMs | Slides Process VMs |
Dec 18 | HLL-VMs | Slides HLL VMs |
Jan 8 | Lab JVM | 14:00 s.t. - 17:00 |
Jan 15 | HLL-VMs (2), System-VMs (1) | Slides System VMs |
Jan 22 | System-VMs (2) | |
Jan 29 | System-VMs (3) / Task 1 Lab 3 | Lab 3 Task Sheet, LGuest paper |
Feb 5 | Task 2 Lab 3 / Exam Q & A |
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
Nov 27, 2019: Docker (B.H.)
Dec 11, 2019: Wine (J.N.)
Dec 18, 2019: ESIL (F.M.)
Jan 15, 2020: LLVM (A.T.)
Jan 22, 2020: Xen (Y.A.)
Jan 22, 2020: KVM (M.N.)