Join Ben Gertzfield, the lead developer of VMware Fusion for Mac, for a look behind the curtain at virtualization on the Mac, the technology that frees operating systems from their earthly hardware chains.

Similar in spirit to the ideals of the microkernel and distributed computing, the abstracted and idealized CPU, storage, network, and other devices provided by virtualization remove the barriers formed by the underlying realities of heterogeneous physical hardware.

He discusses the technologies forming and building upon virtualization, including the hypervisor (or virtual machine monitor), replay (deterministic recording and replaying of all hardware and software events), and virtual machine-based disaster recovery.

In addition, he will share the lessons learned from jumping head-first into the consumer software and Mac worlds, and how "thinking different" applies to porting a massive source code base to its third platform (after Linux and Windows).

Watch this YouTube video, here.