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Reading

Useful papers on Virtualization and Cloud Computing

http://www.cse.iitd.ernet.in/~sbansal/csl862/2010/

Xen and the Art of Virtualization, Pratt et al. SOSP 2003.
Memory Resource management in VMware ESX Server, Carl Waldspurger. OSDI 2002.
AMD-V Nested Paging, AMD White Paper, July 2008

OS dev tutorials

writing small OS - http://mikeos.berlios.de/, osdev.org
Three major resources:
** bkerndev - http://www.osdever.net/tutorials/view/brans-kernel-development-tutorial
** Skelix OS - http://en.skelix.org/skelixos/ (NITC webfilter not allowing this currently)
** JamesM's kernel development tutorials - http://jamesmolloy.co.uk/tutorial_html/index.html
Some comment on comparison of these tutorials: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/f2pnt/write_your_own_kernel_no_more_hello_world_kernel/c1cuvu7
Many resources listed at http://www.bookgoldmine.com/computer-science/operating-systems/44

x86 Assembly Programming (Deadline: Sat Feb 28)

[ALL] http://drpaulcarter.com/pcasm/
Recommended book - The Intel Microprocessors by B B Brey (available in library)

[ALL] Imp. topics to know - data transfer, stack manipulation, subroutines

Basics of OS

[DONE by ALL] Operating System Principles by Silberschatz, Galvin, Gagne, Seventh ed. (Deadline: Feb 1, upto chapter 5)

slides/chapters/notes

[Done by ALL] memory management from same book's slides (Deadline: Saturday Feb 11)

VMM Basics (Deadline: Saturday Feb 11)

[DONE] Presentation sent by guide
[DONE] http://www.springerlink.com/content/g474345g635682u2/
[DONE] Paper 1 - Virtual Machine Monitors: Current Technology and Future Trends
[DONE] Paper 2 - Implementation Of A Purely Hardware-Assisted VMM For X86 Architecture
- www.iaeng.org/publication/WCE2009/WCE2009_pp136-140.pdf
[DONE] Cloud Computing Principles and Paradigms Chapter1

basically about cloud computing. Has info about Hypervisors too

[TODO] Xen Hypervisor [optional]