In this presentation I will describe the main challenges of implementing a virtual machine monitor for the commodity x86 PC as well as some of the solutions to these problems as implemented in VMware's Virtual Platform.
About the speaker:
Mendel Rosenblum is a founder and Chief Scientist of VMware Inc., a startup company that has developed the Virtual Platform technology described in this talk. He is also an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University. He has led a number of research projects including the Disco scalable virtual machine monitor, the SimOS complete machine simulation environment, and the Hive scalable operating system. Dr. Rosenblum received a BA in Math from the University of Virginia (1984) and a MS (1989) and PhD (1992) in Computer Science from UC Berkeley. He is a 1992 recipient of the National Science Foundation's National Young Investigator award and a 1994 recipient of an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Research Fellowship. He was a co-winner of the 1992 ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award for his work on log-structured file systems.
Contact information:
Mendel Rosenblum
3145 Porter Drive, Bldg. F
Palo Alto, CA 94304
USA
(650)-475-5214
(650)-475-5001
mendel@vmware.com