Post-copy live migration of virtual machines

Operating Systems Review (ACM)

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 14-26

  Hines, Michael R ^a   Deshpande, Umesh ^a   Gopalan, Kartik ^a  

^a BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

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

Indexed keywords

FREE MEMORY; HYPERVISOR; LIVENESS; MEMORY STATE; MIGRATION TIME; MULTIPLE ITERATIONS; NETWORK OVERHEAD; OPERATING SYSTEMS; PERFORMANCE IMPACT; PROCESS MIGRATION; VIRTUAL MACHINES; WIN-WIN;

COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS; NANOTECHNOLOGY;

MACHINE DESIGN;

EID: 77952286770     PISSN: 01635980     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1618525.1618528     Document Type: Conference Paper

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