Everything about X86 virtualization

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: X86 virtualizationA 5-minute orientation
2. Pick up a classic book: La Guia Facil del Sexo for DummiesThe most-reprinted book on the subject
3. Read the landmark paper: Bringing Virtualization to the x86 Architecture with the Original VMware WorkstationCited 80 times
4. Go sideways: Input–output memory management unitA closely related topic
5. Go sideways: Second Level Address TranslationA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• Bringing Virtualization to the x86 Architecture with the Original VMware Workstation

  Edouard Bugnion, Scott Devine, Mendel Rosenblum · 2012 · ACM Transactions on Computer Systems · 80 citations

• A comparison of software and hardware techniques for x86 virtualization

  Keith Adams, Ole Agesen · 2006 · ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review · 43 citations

• A comparison of software and hardware techniques for x86 virtualization

  Keith Adams, Ole Agesen · 2006 · ACM SIGPLAN Notices · 42 citations

• On the Virtualization of CUDA Based GPU Remoting on ARM and X86 Machines in the GVirtuS Framework

  Raffaele Montella, Giulio Giunta, Giuliano Laccetti · 2016 · International Journal of Parallel Programming · 23 citations

• A comparison of software and hardware techniques for x86 virtualization

  Keith Adams, Ole Agesen · 2006 · ACM SIGARCH Computer Architecture News · 13 citations

• Virtualization Overhead of Multithreading in X86 State-of-the-Art & Remaining Challenges

  Stijn Schildermans, Jianchen Shan, Kris Aerts · 2021 · IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems · 13 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• La Guia Facil del Sexo for DummiesRuth K. Westheimer, Pierre A. Lehu · 1995
• Modern Operating SystemsAndrew S. Tanenbaum, Herbert Bos · 1992
• GameSharkNick Roberts, Prima Games · 1997
• Data Communications and NetworkingBehrouz A. Forouzan, Catherine Ann Coombs · 2000
• Beautiful architectureDiomidis Spinellis · 2009
• Medical image analysisAtam P. Dhawan · 2010
• A primer on memory consistency and cache coherenceDaniel J. Sorin · 2011
• Digital planetGeorge Beekman, Ben Beekman · 2011

Ranked by number of editions on Open Library, a rough measure of how lasting a book is.

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