SLIDE 11 SLIDES CREATED BY: SHRIDEEP PALLICKARA L25.11
CS370: Operating Systems [Fall 2018]
- Dept. Of Computer Science, Colorado State University
CS370: Operating Systems [Fall 2018]
- Dept. Of Computer Science, Colorado State University
L25.21 Professor: SHRIDEEP PALLICKARA
1970s
November 13, 2018
¨ In 1974, Gerald Popek and Robert Goldberg published a seminal
paper*
¤ Listed what conditions a computer architecture should satisfy to support
virtualization efficiently
¨ Famously, the well-known x86 architecture that originated in the 1970s
did not meet this for decades
¨ 1970s were very productive, seeing the birth of UNIX, Ethernet, Cray-1,
Microsoft, and Apple
*Formal Requirements for Virtualizable Third Generation Architectures. Communications of the
- ACM. Volume 17 Issue 7, pp 412-421. 1974.
CS370: Operating Systems [Fall 2018]
- Dept. Of Computer Science, Colorado State University
L25.22 Professor: SHRIDEEP PALLICKARA
The path to VMware
November 13, 2018
¨ Researchers at Stanford developed a new hypervisor called
Disco
¤Went on to found VMware a virtualization giant
n Offers type 1 and type 2 hypervisors ¨ VMware introduced its first virtualization solution for x86 in
1999
¨ Other products followed in its wake ¤Xen, KVM, VirtualBox, Hyper-V, Parallels