Post-copy based live virtual machine migration using pre-paging and dynamic self-ballooning

Proceedings of the 2009 ACM SIGPLAN/SIGOPS International Conference on Virtual Execution Environments, VEE'09

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 51-60

  Hines, Michael R ^a   Gopalan, Kartik ^a  

^a State University of New York at Binghamton   (United States)

Author keywords

Operating systems; Post copy; Process migration; Virtual machines; Xen

Indexed keywords

OPERATING SYSTEMS; POST-COPY; PROCESS MIGRATION; VIRTUAL MACHINES; XEN;

COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS;

MACHINE DESIGN;

EID: 67650091430     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1508293.1508301     Document Type: Conference Paper

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