The following are abstracts from papers presented at VMworld 2008 in Las Vegas: A Clean Environment for Web Applications Using Lightweight Virtualization Jiang Wang, Yih Huang, Angelos Stavrou and Anup Ghosh (George Mason University) Internet Cleanroom: A System Using On-Demand Virtualization to Enhance Client-Side Security while Keeping Usability…
Execution trace is an important tool in computer architecture research. Unfortunately, existing trace collection techniques are often slow (due to software tracing overheads) or expensive (due to special tracing hardware requirements). Regardless of the method of collection, detailed trace files are generally large and inconvenient to store and…
Virtual machines were developed by IBM in the 1960’s to provide concurrent, interactive access to a mainframe computer. Each virtual machine is a replica of the underlying physical machine and users are given the illusion of running directly on the physical machine. Virtual machines also provide benefits like…
Until recently, the x86 architecture has not permitted classical trap-and-emulate virtualization. Virtual Machine Monitors for x86, such as VMware Workstation and Virtual PC, have instead used binary translation of the guest kernel code. However, both Intel and AMD have now introduced architectural extensions to support classical virtualization. We…
Modern graphics co-processors (GPUs) can produce high fidelity images several orders of magnitude faster than general purpose CPUs, and this performance expectation is rapidly becoming ubiquitous in personal computers. Despite this, GPU virtualization is a nascent field of research. This paper introduces a taxonomy of strategies for GPU…
The VIX Java Toolkit allows Java developers to take advantage of the VMware VIX API. This is a powerful API that allows for performing in-guest operations on VMs running with vSphere, Workstation, Server, and Player.
This module loads into both Explorer and vmware-vmx, and renders a resizable thumbnail of your choice of VM console to the Windows taskbar.
VMware Guest Console (VGC) is an application to manage the Guest Operating Systems installed on a VM. VGC includes a Unified Task Manager, Guest file system explorer, Snapshot Manager and a VM Manager. VGC is supported with vmware server and desktop products like vSphere, Server 2.0 and Workstation and can connect to multiple hosts simultaneously.
The vapprun command-line tool brings the full vApp model to Workstation and Fusion. It builds vApps that contain multiple VMs or nested vApps and can configure start/stop ordering of child elements of a vApp.
