COMP 3000 Essay 2 2010 Question 9

Go to discussion for group members confirmation, general talk and paper discussions.

Paper

"The Turtles Project: Design and Implementation of Nested Virtualization"

Authors:

• Muli Ben-Yehuday +
• Michael D. Day ++
• Zvi Dubitzky +
• Michael Factor +
• Nadav Har’El +
• Abel Gordon +
• Anthony Liguori ++
• Orit Wasserman +
• Ben-Ami Yassour +

Research labs:

+ IBM Research – Haifa

++ IBM Linux Technology Center

Website: http://www.usenix.org/events/osdi10/tech/full_papers/Ben-Yehuda.pdf

Video presentation: http://www.usenix.org/multimedia/osdi10ben-yehuda [Note: username and password are required for entry]

Background Concepts

Explain briefly the background concepts and ideas that your fellow classmates will need to know first in order to understand your assigned paper.

Research problem

What is the research problem being addressed by the paper? How does this problem relate to past related work? Contribution: What are the research contribution(s) of this work? Specifically, what are the key research results, and what do they mean? (What was implemented? Why is it any better than what came before?)

Critique

What is good and not-so-good about this paper? You may discuss both the style and content; be sure to ground your discussion with specific references. Simple assertions that something is good or bad is not enough - you must explain why.

References

You will almost certainly have to refer to other resources; please cite these resources in the style of citation of the papers assigned (inlined numbered references). Place your bibliographic entries in this section.