Reasonably Logical

I just heard today that the article I submitted for publication in the Illinois Journal for Undergraduate Research got accepted. While this isn’t a huge deal since it is only a undergraduate journal, it is still nice. Gives me something to put on my resume.
My article is titled: “A Hypervisor for Embedded Computing” and will soon be available at http://academic.ec.uiuc.edu/ijur/. It isn’t up yet. In theory, I had several coauthors, but most of the writing and work is mine.

I’ve been working on my senior thesis again and it has me thinking once more about virtualization. We’re starting to see what I think is the future of virtualization: pure-virtualized guests with para-virtualized drivers. The reason I expect this hybrid scheme to dominate is that it shares most of the strongest advantages of the two competing virtualization schemes. Loading the para-virtualized drivers allows the guests to exploit the performance advantages, without having to relinquish hardware compatibility. A scheme like this is being adopted by VMware, Xen, & KVM.