Virtual machines versatile platforms for systems and processes

Historically, individual virtual machine techniques have been developed within the specific disciplines that employ them (in some cases they arent even referred to as virtual machines), making it difficult to see their common underlying relationships in a cohesive way. In this text, Smith and Nair t...

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Main Author: Smith, James E.
Other Authors: Nair, Ravi
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: San Francisco, CA Morgan Kaufmann 2005
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505 0 |a Introduction to virtual machines -- Emulation : interpretation and binary translation -- Process virtual machines -- Dynamic binary optimization -- High-level language virtual machine architecture -- High-level language virtual machine implementation -- Codesigned virtual machines -- System virtual machines -- Multiprocessor virtualization -- Emerging applications 
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520 |a Historically, individual virtual machine techniques have been developed within the specific disciplines that employ them (in some cases they arent even referred to as virtual machines), making it difficult to see their common underlying relationships in a cohesive way. In this text, Smith and Nair take a new approach by examining virtual machines as a unified discipline. Pulling together cross-cutting technologies allows virtual machine implementations to be studied and engineered in a well-structured manner. Topics include instruction set emulation, dynamic program translation and optimization, high level virtual machines (including Java and CLI), and system virtual machines for both single-user systems and servers. *Examines virtual machine technologies across the disciplines that use themoperating systems, programming languages and computer architecturedefining a new and unified discipline. *Reviewed by principle researchers at Microsoft, HP, and by other industry research groups.  
520 |a Virtual Machine technology applies the concept of virtualization to an entire machine, circumventing real machine compatibility constraints and hardware resource constraints to enable a higher degree of software portability and flexibility. Virtual machines are rapidly becoming an essential element in computer system design. They provide system security, flexibility, cross-platform compatibility, reliability, and resource efficiency. Designed to solve problems in combining and using major computer system components, virtual machine technologies play a key role in many disciplines, including operating systems, programming languages, and computer architecture. For example, at the process level, virtualizing technologies support dynamic program translation and platform-independent network computing. At the system level, they support multiple operating system environments on the same hardware platform and in servers.  
520 |a *Written by two authors who combine several decades of expertise in computer system research and development, both in academia and industry