Opening black boxes: Using semantic information to combat virtual machine image sprawl

VEE'08 - Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Virtual Execution Environments

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 111-120

  Reimer, Darrell ^a   Thomas, Arun ^b   Ammons, Glenn ^a   Mummert, Todd ^a   Alpern, Bowen ^a   Bala, Vasanth ^a  

^a IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Deployment; Installation; Management; Virtualization

Indexed keywords

BLACK BOXES; CONTENT DESCRIPTORS; FILE CONTENTS; IMAGE FILES; IMAGE FORMAT; INSTALLATION MANAGEMENT; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; PHYSICAL DISKS; SEMANTIC INFORMATION; SOFTWARE MANAGEMENT; STORAGE FORMATS; VIRTUAL MACHINE MONITORS; VIRTUAL MACHINES; VIRTUALIZATIONS;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DISKS (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); METADATA; SEMANTICS;

MILITARY PHOTOGRAPHY;

EID: 77952326123     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1346256.1346272     Document Type: Conference Paper

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