ISIT 475 Virtualization

Prerequisites: ISIT 240, ISIT 250, and ISIT 260

This course will cover how virtual machines (VMs) are implemented. The course will be organized as a mixture of theory and implementation. The student will implement their own hypervisor, and extend the hypervisor as an open-ended course project. Topics to be covered include: memory management, paravirtualization, hardware virtualization, OS-level virtualization (containers), security, and advanced research topics. Offered Spring semester, annually.