VMware virtual memory management slide deck

I am in London this week where I did a presentation on VMware memory management at the annual conference of the UK Computer Measurement Group. I intend to revisit all the material I worked up for the presentation as a series of blog entries that I plan to publish over the next several weeks.

But, if you cannot wait, the slide deck is posted here:

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