Virtualization
Publications categorized under Virtualization.
High-Performance KVM/QEMU: PCIe Passthrough & VFIO Hardware Virtualization
High-Performance KVM/QEMU: PCIe Passthrough & VFIO Hardware Virtualization
Achieve near-native bare-metal GPU and NVMe disk performance inside virtual machines using IOMMU groups and VFIO driver binding.
Architecting Enterprise Proxmox VE Clusters with Ceph HCI Hyperconverged Storage
Architecting Enterprise Proxmox VE Clusters with Ceph HCI Hyperconverged Storage
Deploy redundant open-source virtualization platforms featuring automatic VM failover, Corosync quorum voting, and distributed Ceph pools.
MicroVM Architecture: Comparing AWS Firecracker and Cloud-Hypervisor in Rust
MicroVM Architecture: Comparing AWS Firecracker and Cloud-Hypervisor in Rust
How lightweight minimal hypervisors boot virtual machines in under 5 milliseconds with minimal memory footprints for serverless isolation.
VirtIO Internals: Paravirtualized I/O Drivers, Vhost-User & Shared Memory Rings
VirtIO Internals: Paravirtualized I/O Drivers, Vhost-User & Shared Memory Rings
Deep dive into how guest VM kernels pass block, network, and memory requests to host hypervisors using ring buffer descriptors.
KubeVirt Blueprint: Managing Legacy Virtual Machines on Kubernetes
KubeVirt Blueprint: Managing Legacy Virtual Machines on Kubernetes
Unify VM and container orchestration by running QEMU/KVM workloads inside standard Kubernetes pods via KubeVirt custom controllers.
Enterprise Virtualization Migration: Transitioning VMware vSphere to KVM/Proxmox
Enterprise Virtualization Migration: Transitioning VMware vSphere to KVM/Proxmox
Strategies for converting VMDK disk images to qcow2, handling virtio guest driver injection, and automating live VM migrations.
Hypervisor Memory Management: KSM (Kernel Samepage Merging) & Memory Ballooning
Hypervisor Memory Management: KSM (Kernel Samepage Merging) & Memory Ballooning
Maximize host RAM density by deduplicating identical guest memory pages with KSM and dynamically reclaiming unused guest RAM via virtio-balloon.
Nested Virtualization Mechanics: Running Hypervisors Inside Virtual Machines
Nested Virtualization Mechanics: Running Hypervisors Inside Virtual Machines
Enable hardware-assisted nested VT-x/AMD-V virtualization to run development Kubernetes clusters or ESXi inside cloud VMs.
Private Cloud Infrastructure: OpenStack Architecture, Nova Compute & Neutron SDN
Private Cloud Infrastructure: OpenStack Architecture, Nova Compute & Neutron SDN
Deconstruct multi-node OpenStack private cloud deployments, tenant networking overlays, and block storage provisioning workflows.
Containers vs Virtualization: Deep Kernel Trade-Offs in Security and Performance
Containers vs Virtualization: Deep Kernel Trade-Offs in Security and Performance
An objective engineering analysis comparing container namespace isolation overhead against hardware-enforced hypervisor boundaries.