You're reading from Modern Computer Architecture and Organization – Second Edition Learn x86, ARM, and RISC-V architectures and the design of smartphones, PCs, and cloud servers

Product type Paperback

Published in May 2022

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781803234519

Length 666 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

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Blockchain

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Computer Architecture

Author (1):

Jim Ledin

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Table of Contents (21) Chapters

Preface

1. Introducing Computer Architecture FREE CHAPTER

2. Digital Logic

3. Processor Elements

4. Computer System Components

5. Hardware-Software Interface

6. Specialized Computing Domains

7. Processor and Memory Architectures

8. Performance-Enhancing Techniques

9. Specialized Processor Extensions

10. Modern Processor Architectures and Instruction Sets

11. The RISC-V Architecture and Instruction Set

12. Processor Virtualization

13. Domain-Specific Computer Architectures

14. Cybersecurity and Confidential Computing Architectures

15. Blockchain and Bitcoin Mining Architectures

16. Self-Driving Vehicle Architectures

17. Quantum Computing and Other Future Directions in Computer Architectures

18. Other Books You May Enjoy

19. Index

Appendix

Chapter 12: Processor Virtualization

Exercise 1

Download and install the current version of VirtualBox. Download, install, and bring up Ubuntu Linux as a VM within VirtualBox.

Connect the guest OS to the internet using a bridged network adapter. Configure and enable clipboard sharing and file sharing between the Ubuntu guest and your host operating system.

Answer

Perform the following steps:

Download the VirtualBox 6.1 (or later version) installer from https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads. Be sure to select the version appropriate for your host operating system.
Run the VirtualBox installer and accept the default prompts.
Download a VirtualBox image of 64-bit Ubuntu Linux. One source for such an image is https://www.osboxes.org/ubuntu/. If the image is in a compressed format, uncompress it. Use 7-Zip (https://www.7-zip.org/) if the filename ends with .7z. After unzipping, the VirtualBox disk image filename will have the extension .vdi.