Process virtualization | Faculty of Technical Sciences

Subject: Process virtualization (17.ESI060)

Type of studies	Title
Undergraduate Academic Studies	Power Software Engineering (Year: 3, Semester: Summer)

General information:

Category	Professional-applicative
Scientific or art field	Primenjeno softversko inženjerstvo
ECTS	6

Mastering of advanced principles and techniques of process virtualization.

This course will train students to be able to understand the processor virtualization.

Process and system virtualization introduction. Basic concepts of process virtualization. Basic concepts of system virtualization. Automatic memory management. Explicit memory management. Introduction in automatic memory management. Problems to solve. Memory allocation. Algorithms (mark-sweep, mark-compact, copying, reference counting, concurrent and real-time memory collection). Resources that cannot be handles automatically.

Lectures. Computer excercises. Consultations. The theoretical part of knowledge is exposed in the lectures. At the same time, practical part of knowledge is exposed in the computer excercises.

Authors	Title	Year	Publisher	Language
Tanenbaum, Andrew S.	Operating systems	1987	Prentice-Hall International, Inc.	English
Smith J., Nair R.	Virtual Machines: Versatile Platforms for Systems and Processes	2005	The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Computer Architecture and Design	English
Jones R., Hosking A., Moss E.	The Garbage Collection Handbook: The Art of Automatic Memory Management	2011	Chapman & Hall/CRC	English