Virtualisation technical articles

This page contains links to technical articles about virtualisation technology. It's a sort of fancy bookmark of what I consider interesting reading as a programmer... this is not likely to be interesting for everyone ;)

• Navigating the kernel debugger

This tutorial covers a few of the basic features of the kernel debugger and has some tips on getting used to using it.

• Sharing memory with the virtual machine

Tricks on sharing data between guest OS instances and the host.

• Virtualisation Instruction Set Architecture

MIPS R3000 processor model, available at ArchC was extended to offer virtualisation support, adding instructions and structures inspired by Intel VT-x.

• Using VMWare Record/Replay and VProbes for low time-distortion performance profiling

Advanced article on how-to use VMware for your application performance profiling.

• NTPRO.nl Eavesdrop your VI Client traffic

Eric Sloof shows you a trick here on how-to display the soap trafffic send over the wire by the VI-Client. See also project Onyx from VMware for another approach.