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Thank you. On the same subject can someone recommend a book or any other resource to learn about virtual machine internals? My goal is to try to build a toy clone of VirtualBox/VMWare. So far I have found one -- Virtual Machines by James E. Smith and Ravi Nair.
Thank you. On the same subject can someone recommend a book or any other resource to learn about virtual machine internals? My goal is to try to build a toy clone of VirtualBox/VMWare. So far I have found one -- Virtual Machines by James E. Smith and Ravi Nair.
https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSkhUfcCXvqHsOy2VUxuoAf...
I don't mean this to disparage Airbus in any way but after Boeing's issues with the 737 MAX I'd assumed a fairly poor culture of software at airplane manufacturers in general. Super glad to see work like this coming out of Airbus, really makes me rethink my earlier assumptions about software competence in the field.
I don't mean this to disparage Airbus in any way but after Boeing's issues with the 737 MAX I'd assumed a fairly poor culture of software at airplane manufacturers in general. Super glad to see work like this coming out of Airbus, really makes me rethink my earlier assumptions about software competence in the field.
Airbus also has the Airbus Defense and Space group as well, it’s not just all airplanes :)
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I've always been intrigued by virtual machines and emulation as well. I've always wanted to try and make an emulator of some kind. I don't know much about the internals of VirtualBox, but my suggestion would be to start "easy" with one CPU/Computer System/Game Console and go from there. That's what I finally did with the 6502 and Commodore 64.
Conventionally, one starts from the CHIP-8, which is indeed a virtual machine rather than a system in a strict sense. What I've found difficult is the step beyond that. NES and GameBoy are typical steps, however, I've been very frustrated by the confusing documentation of the GameBoy. There are 3/4 references, but one of them has significant mistakes, while another is incomplete. On the other hand, the Pan Docs shoul…
All that said, emulating the CPU was pretty fun. There's a CPU test rom out there you can run with tracing and compare to the published results. I also got the background tiling from the PPU done, but the foreground processing has a lot of steps, so I indefinitely paused for now. Also, I had amazingly poor performance, so I wasn't super motivated to continue.
The 2600 has a very similar cpu, but the very limited Stella output chip means most games are very timing dependent, which means you have to be super accurate, which adds difficulty. I think you should try to be cycle accurate anyway, but it's easy to mess that up, and having some freedom would be nice.
Thank you. On the same subject can someone recommend a book or any other resource to learn about virtual machine internals? My goal is to try to build a toy clone of VirtualBox/VMWare. So far I have found one -- Virtual Machines by James E. Smith and Ravi Nair.
https://www.morganclaypool.com/doi/abs/10.2200/S00754ED1V01Y...
Bringing Virtualization to the x86 Architecture with the Original VMware Workstation (2012)
I don't mean this to disparage Airbus in any way but after Boeing's issues with the 737 MAX I'd assumed a fairly poor culture of software at airplane manufacturers in general. Super glad to see work like this coming out of Airbus, really makes me rethink my earlier assumptions about software competence in the field.
I don't mean this to disparage Airbus in any way but after Boeing's issues with the 737 MAX I'd assumed a fairly poor culture of software at airplane manufacturers in general. Super glad to see work like this coming out of Airbus, really makes me rethink my earlier assumptions about software competence in the field.
That is such a bizarre viewpoint from my perspective. The absolute deathtrap that is the 737 MAX had two software-related critical failures in 400,000 flights. That constitutes a whole system per-flight software reliability of 2 in ~400,000 or a ~99.9995%, 5 9s. Obviously that is still unacceptable as that is far below the software standard amongst all commercial airplanes where software has not been implicated in a…
thou I wouldn’t buy a Toyota that exploded every 400,000 trips world wide Or bank with a bank that lost all my money every 400,000 transactions world wide
I don't mean this to disparage Airbus in any way but after Boeing's issues with the 737 MAX I'd assumed a fairly poor culture of software at airplane manufacturers in general. Super glad to see work like this coming out of Airbus, really makes me rethink my earlier assumptions about software competence in the field.
That is such a bizarre viewpoint from my perspective. The absolute deathtrap that is the 737 MAX had two software-related critical failures in 400,000 flights. That constitutes a whole system per-flight software reliability of 2 in ~400,000 or a ~99.9995%, 5 9s. Obviously that is still unacceptable as that is far below the software standard amongst all commercial airplanes where software has not been implicated in a…