Virtualization is an essential technology used by many computer systems for innovation. For instance, cloud computing platforms, including Amazon AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure, build on virtualization to virtualize the hardware abstraction, allowing multiple virtual machines to run on a single piece of hardware. Typically, virtual machine monitors (hypervisors), such as KVM, Xen, Azure, and VMware, expose the virtual machine interface. In addition, the recent development of containers virtualizes the kernel interface language virtual machines: Furthermore, language virtual machines such as JVM and DVM effectively improve the program portability and support program execution across incompatible computer architectures. In this course, we will introduce the principles of virtualization. We will focus on various perspectives, including the security and performance of different virtualization systems. Students who take this course are expected to get hands-on experience in using and developing virtualization systems software.

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