Virtual Machines

James E. Smith, Ravi Nair

655 pages, parution le 25/07/2005

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Résumé

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.

Historically, individual virtual machine techniques have been developed within the specific disciplines that employ them (in some cases they aren't 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.

L'auteur - James E. Smith

Jim Smith : University of Wisconsin

L'auteur - Ravi Nair

Ravi Nair : IBM, Thomas J. Watson Research Center, New York

Sommaire

Introduction to Virtual Machines
Emulation: Interpretation and Binary Translation
Process Virtual Machines
Dynamic Binary Optimization
High-Level Language Virtual Machine Architecture
High-Level virtual Machine Implementation
Codesigned Virtual Machines
System Virtual Machines
Multiprocessor Virtualization
Emerging Applications
Appendix A: Real Machines

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Caractéristiques techniques

	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	Morgan Kaufmann
Auteur(s)	James E. Smith, Ravi Nair
Parution	25/07/2005
Nb. de pages	655
Format	19,5 x 24
Couverture	Relié
Poids	1480g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9781558609105
ISBN13	978-1-55860-910-5