VMware Academic Program Overview
The VMware Academic Program (VMAP) is a comprehensive program designed specifically for the academic community. The program enables qualifying academic institutions worldwide to gain easy access to cutting-edge virtualization technology and resources at no charge.
VMAP accelerates instruction and research in the rapidly expanding area of virtualized infrastructure by providing faculty and students with access to the virtualization technologies most widely used in commercial production environments.
- Faculty can use VMware software under specific program usage guidelines, free of charge, in a wide variety of areas of academic research and classroom instruction.
- Students can use this software as part of their coursework or research projects.
In addition to free licenses for instruction and research, VMware also provides academic institutions and affiliated organizations special discounts on VMware software and support when deployed as a part of their IT infrastructure.
Online Resources
Academic Papers & Abstracts & Other Works of Interest
- Virtualization in the classroom @ Columbia.EDU
Experiences Teaching Operating Systems Using Virtual Platforms and Linux by Jason Nieh (Columbia University), presented at VMworld 2008 Academic Summit - Managed Virtualized Platforms:
From Multicore Nodes to Distributed
Cloud Infrastructures
Managed Platforms from Multicore Nodes to Distributed Cloud Infrastructures by Ada Gavrilovska (Georgia Institute of Technology), presented at VMworld 2008 Academic Summit - Virtualization-based testing of hardware-software security
architecture
Virtualization-based Testing of Hardware-Software Security Architecture, by Ruby Lee and Jeffrey Dwoskin (Princeton University), presented at VMworld 2008 Academic Summit - Academic Poster Abstracts from VMworld 2008 Las Vegas
- Compatibility is Not Transparency: VMM Detection Myths and Realities
by Tal Garfinkel, Keith Adams, Andrew Warfield, and Jason Franklin - Easy and Efficient Disk I/O Workload Characterization in VMware ESX
by Irfan Ahmad - A Comparison of Software and Hardware Techniques for x86 Virtualization
by Keith Adams and Ole Agesen - VMI: An Interface for Paravirtualization (Proceedings of the Linux Symposium)
by Zach Amsden, Daniel Arai, Daniel Hecht, Anne Holler and Pratap Subrahmanyam - Fast Transparent Migration for Virtual Machines
by Michael Nelson, Beng-Hong Lim and Greg Hutchins - An Analysis of Disk Performance in VMware ESX Virtual Machines
by Irfan Ahmad, Jennifer M. Anderson, Anne M. Holler, Rajit Kambo and Vikram Makhija - Memory Resource Management in VMware ESX
by Carl A. Waldspurger - Virtualizing I/O Devices on VMware Workstation's Hosted Virtual Machine Monitor
by Jeremy Sugerman, Ganesh Venkitachalam and Beng-Hong Lim
Tech Reports
- VMmark: A Scalable Benchmark for Virtualized Systems
by Vikram Makhija, Bruce Herndon, Paula Smith, Lisa Roderick, Eric Zamost and Jennifer Anderson
Benchmark Testing:
Publishing of benchmark results is allowed by the Academic EULA. While VMware does not require approval before publication, we welcome the opportunity to work with researchers to review the methodology, assumptions, and other parameters of the study. As part of our review process, we will also ensure that no VMware confidential information is included in the publication and ask for a courtesy copy of submitted papers. To submit results and test plans please send us an email
Questions?
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