
It concludes with a performance comparison of virtualization on current-generation x86- and ARM-based systems across multiple hypervisors. This book includes an in-depth description of the CPU, memory, and I/O virtualization of these two processor architectures, as well as case studies on the Linux/KVM, VMware, and Xen hypervisors.


The second half of the book describes state-of-the-art support for virtualization in both x86-64 and ARM processors. Professor, cole Polytechnique Fdrale de Lausanne (EPFL) and Vice President, Information Systems at the EPFL. Bugnion graduated with a bachelors degree in engineering from ETH Zurich.
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at Stanford University and spent a year at Google working on datacenter networking. Edouard Ed Bugnion is a Swiss-American software architect and businessman. It also describes earlier systems that enabled virtualization despite the lack of architectural support in hardware.Īs is often the case, theory defines a necessary-but not sufficient-set of features, and modern architectures are the result of the combination of the theoretical framework with insights derived from practical systems. I am an associate professor at MIT CSAIL, where I build systems that cut across hardware and software boundaries. The first half of the book provides the historical perspective of the theoretical framework developed four decades ago by Popek and Goldberg. Edouard Ed Bugnion has a net worth of 5.00 million (Estimated) which he earned from his occupation as Engineer.

Virtualization is still possible when the instruction set architecture lacks such support, but the hypervisor remains more complex and must rely on additional techniques.ĭespite the focus on architectural support in current architectures, some historical perspective is necessary to appropriately frame the problem. Together with his colleagues, he received the ACM Software System Award for VMware 1.0 in 2009. Edouard (Ed) Bugnion is one of VMware s an original 5 founders Ed Bugnion was Chief Architect at VMware until 2004. This book focuses on the core question of the necessary architectural support provided by hardware to efficiently run virtual machines, and of the corresponding design of the hypervisors that run them.
