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Unless otherwise noted, you only need to review the first paper listed for each day.
Note that optional readings are available for those with more interest in a topic, and are not required reading for any exams or homework assignments.
Papers are only accessible to hosts in the unc.edu domain, although most are available elsewhere online.
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| Part 1: Hypervisor design and implementation | ||||
| Wed 01/11 | Introduction and Basics |
No review due on the first day of the course. Don's Notes. | Formal Requirements for Virtualizable Third Generation Architectures (Popek and Goldberg, CACM, 1974). | |
| Mon 01/16 | Martin Luther King Jr. Day, No class. |
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| Wed 01/18 | VMware Workstation Design (part 1) |
Read through the end of Section 6.1 | Bringing Virtualization to the x86 Architecture with the Original VMware Workstation (Bugnion, Devine, Rosenblum, Sugerman, and Wang, TOCS, 2012) |
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| Mon 01/23 | VMware Workstation Design (part 2) |
Read Sections 6.2--11. Don's Notes. | Bringing Virtualization to the x86 Architecture with the Original VMware Workstation (Bugnion, Devine, Rosenblum, Sugerman, and Wang, TOCS, 2012) | Memory Resource Management in VMware ESX Server (Waldspurger, OSDI, 2002). |
| Wed 01/25 | x86 Virtualization Hardware |
Don's Notes. | A comparison of software and hardware techniques for x86 virtualization (Adams and Agesen, ASPLOS, 2006). |
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| Mon 01/30 | Hacking Day! |
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| Wed 02/01 | Binary Translation |
Don's Notes. | Fast Dynamic Binary Translation for the Kernel (Kedia and Bansal, SOSP 2013) |
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| Fri 02/03 | Lab 1 Due (11:59 PM) |
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| Mon 02/06 | Paravirtualization |
Don's Notes. | Xen and Art of Virtualization (Barham, Dragovic, Fraser, Hand, Harris, Ho, Neugebaur, Pratt and Warfield, SOSP 2003). |
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| Wed 02/08 | Virtualizing the VMM |
Don's Notes. | The Turtles Project: Design and Implementation of Nested Virtualization (Ben-Yehuda, Day, Dubitzky, Factor, Har'El, Gordon, Liguori, Wasserman, and Yassour, OSDI 2010) | |
| Fri 02/10 | Hacking Day! |
Make-up, in FB 331 (2-3:30) | ||
| Mon 02/13 | Library OSes |
Rethinking the Library OS from the Top-Down (Porter, Boyd-Wickizer, Howell, Olinsky, Hunt, ASPLOS, 2011) |
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| Wed 02/15 | VM == Process? |
Don's Notes. | Dune: Safe User-Level Access to Privileged CPU Features (Belay, Bittau, Mashtizadeh, Terei, Mazieres, and Kozyrakis, OSDI 2012) |
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| Fri 02/17 | Hacking Day! |
Make-up, in FB 007 (2-3:30) | ||
| Part 2: Virtual I/O | ||||
| Mon 02/20 | Virtual I/O "Classic" |
Don's notes | Virtualizing I/O Devices on VMware Workstation's Hosted Virtual Machine Monitor (Sugerman, Venkitachalam, and Lim, USENIX 2001) | |
| Wed 02/22 | virtio and vfio |
Don's Notes. |
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| Fri 02/24 | Lab 2 Due 11:59 PM |
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| Mon 02/27 | Class Rescheduled |
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| Wed 03/01 | Class Rescheduled |
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| Fri 03/03 | Lab 3a Due (Advisory Deadline) |
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| Mon 03/06 | Fast Virtual I/O |
Don's Notes. | A Comprehensive Implementation and Evaluation of Direct Interrupt Delivery (Tu, Ferdman, Lee, and Chiueh, VEE 2015). |
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| Wed 03/08 | Hacking Day! |
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| Fri 03/10 | Lab 3 Due 11:59PM |
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| Mon 03/13 | Spring Recess, Class Canceled |
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| Wed 03/15 | Spring Recess, Class Canceled |
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| Mon 03/20 | Hole Punching |
Don's Notes. | IX: A Protected Dataplane Operating System for High Throughput and Low Latency (Belay, Prekas, Klimovic, Grossman, Kozyrakis, and Bugnion, OSDI 2014) |
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| Tue 03/21 | |
Project Proposal Due. 11:59PM | ||
| Wed 03/22 | Virtual I/O at Rack Scale |
Don's Notes. | Paravirtual Remote I/O (Kuperman, Moscovici, Nider, Ladelsky, Gordon, and Tsafrir, ASPLOS 2016) |
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| Fri 03/24 | Hacking Day! |
Make-up Day (2-3:30), FB 007 | ||
| Mon 03/27 | Class Rescheduled |
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| Wed 03/29 | Virtual Disks |
Don's Notes. | Parallax: Virtual Disks for Virtual Machines (Meyer, Aggarwal, Cully, Lefebvre, Feeley, Hutchinson, and Warfield, EuroSys 2008) | |
| Mon 04/03 | Software-Defined Storage |
Don's Notes. | IOFlow: A Software-Defined Storage Architecture (Thereska, Ballani, O'Shea, Karagiannis, Rowstron, Talpey, Black, and Zhu, SOSP 2013) | |
| Part 3: Security | ||||
| Wed 04/05 | Introspection |
Review the second paper. Don's Notes. |
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| Mon 04/10 | Reducing the TCB (1) |
Don's Notes. | TrustVisor: Efficient TCB Reduction and Attestation (McCune, Li, Qu, Zhou, Datta, Gligor, and Perrig, Oakland 2010) |
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| Wed 04/12 | Hacking Day! |
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| Fri 04/14 | |
Lab 4 Due. 11:59PM. | ||
| Mon 04/17 | Reducing the TCB (2) |
Don's Notes. | Breaking Up is Hard to Do: Security and Functionality in a Commodity Hypervisor (Colp, Nanavati, Zhu, Aiello, Coker, Deegan, Loscocco, and Warfield, SOSP 2011) | VirtuOS: an operating system with kernel virtualization (Nikolaev and Black, SOSP 2013) |
| Wed 04/19 | Removing Trust from the OS (1) |
Don's Notes. | InkTag: Secure Applications on an Untrusted Operating System (Hofmann, Kim, Dunn, Lee, and Witchel, ASPLOS 2013) |
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| Mon 04/24 | Removing Trust from the OS (2) |
Don's Notes. | SCONE: Secure Linux Containers with Intel SGX (Arnautov, Trach, Gregor, Knauth, Martin, Priebe, Lind, Muthukumaran, O'Keeffe, Stillwell, Goltzsche, Eyers, Kaptiza, Pietzuch, and Fetzer, OSDI 2016) |
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| Wed 04/26 | Project Demos |
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| Fri 04/28 | |
Final Projects Due. 11:59PM. | ||
Copyright Notice: These lecture notes, homeworks, and lab assignments are part of a graduate course on operating systems. You must ask me permission to use these materials. I do not grant to you the right to publish these materials for profit in any form.
Donald Porter, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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