A Comprehensive Overview of Virtualization and Hypervisors (148‑Slide PPT)
This 148‑page PPT, created several years ago, offers a thorough summary of virtualization technology—including its fundamentals, hardware‑assisted mechanisms, XEN and KVM architectures, peripheral virtualization, and container/Docker integration—most of which remains relevant today.
The author compiled a 148‑page PPT a few years ago that provides a comprehensive summary of virtualization technologies, covering the essence of virtualization, underlying hardware principles, and software implementations. Most of the material is still applicable, with only a few sections potentially outdated due to recent changes.
Classic virtualizable models and traps – simulation
Ways to implement virtualization
Full virtualization
Paravirtualization
Hardware‑assisted virtualization
CPU virtualization
Memory virtualization
Interrupt virtualization
Timer virtualization
IOMMU / SMMU
Practical XEN and KVM
Architecture (XEN DOM0, driver DOM, KVM host/guest)
Type‑1 VCPU scheduling and memory management
Type‑2 VCPU scheduling and memory management
Peripheral virtualization
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Containers and Docker
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