Inside VMware Fusion

Google Tech Talks
October, 17 2007

ABSTRACT

Join Ben Gertzfield of VMware for a look behind the curtain at virtualization on the Mac, the technology that frees operating systems from their earthly hardware chains.

Similar in spirit to the ideals of the microkernel and distributed computing, the abstracted and idealized CPU, storage, network, and other devices provided by virtualization remove the barriers formed by the underlying realities of heterogeneous physical hardware.

We'll discuss the technologies forming and building upon virtualization, including the hypervisor (or virtual machine monitor), replay (deterministic recording and replaying of all hardware and software events), and virtual machine-based disaster recovery.

In addition, we'll share the lessons learned from jumping head-first into the consumer software and Mac worlds, and how "thinking different" applies to porting a massive source code base to its third platform (after Linux and Windows).

This talk will be taped by the engEDU Tech Talks Team.

Speaker: Ben Gertzfield
Ben Gertzfield is the lead developer of VMware Fusion for Mac, VMware's first virtualization solution for Intel Macs, currently available for free trial download.

Ben graduated from the University of California, Santa Cruz with a degree in computer science, and subsequently lived and worked in Japan be...

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[7h3ki113r666]

uploaded on my birthday that must be why i love this program

[anonymoniker]

Good info. Excellent presentation.

[jograd08]

cloud computing won't work on everybody, there lots of factors to consider. Java is a great language, and ur just saying that coz your a rep from vmware.

[kinkokonko]

Incorrect. Java is a fantastic language and the JVM a great platform allow developers to develop and run independent of OS specifics. What you are essenitally comparing is chalk and cheese as Java never set out to solve the solutions VM ware is approaching. It set out to provide a platform independent language with the JVM being runtime. VMware is dealing with a completely different set of concerns. You don't really seem to understand what Java was designed for ...

[bgertzfield]

As a platform for distributing applications to an idealized virtual environment, Java is indeed a failure. Yes, it's widely used on the server side, but not because of the virtual machine it provides.

VMware provides virtualization not just for resource utilization, but also to make a consistent virtual hardware platform to allow you to run applications anywhere, no matter what the underlying physical hardware is capable of.

[kinkokonko]

HIs comments on Java are just bollocks and completely out of context. A) its not a failure, it is on billions of devices world wide B) the 2 concept of virtualization are not alike. Java gives a common application platform, VMWare is virtualization of an OS to achieve resource utilitlzation. He seems not to know what hes bloody talking about. and C) Java has been pretty bloody good in backward compatability for a language.

[sergiomcfly]

Seriously:

I bought both them VMWARE and PARALLELS

Listen carefuly what I have to tell you:

VMWARE IS THE BEST. Miles away from Parallels. The best tool for you "play" windows on your OSx (no heavy impact on your MAC what so ever!!!!!)

Trust me!

Thanks VMWARE Team. Really thanks.

[billerjason]

seriously, youtube is a fun way to express yourself, this should be posted on digg

[fukin0]

REALLY GOOD

[matthewisthebest]

no!!!!!!!!!!!!! that was virtual pc in the power pc era of macs.

[switchway]

no

one

cares

[Quizerzink]

what a nerd...