Steve Herrod describes VMware R&D and points out Academic Papers

Steve Herrod, Vice President of Research and Development (R&D), VMware, just started his blog, Virtually There, on VMTN Blog pages.

In his first post he’s kind enough to details us how the VMware R&D department is composed:

• The monitor group
• The vmkernel group
• The service console group
• The performance group
• The partner engineering group
• The community source group

and to point out 4 interesting papers from his engineers:

• Fast Transparent Migration for Virtual Machines
• Memory Resource Management in VMware ESX Server
• Virtualizing I/O Devices on VMware Workstation’s Hosted Virtual Machine Monitor
• An Analysis of Disk Performance in VMware ESX Server Virtual Machines