Rethink the virtual machine template

Proceedings of the 2011 ACM SIGPLAN/SIGOPS International Conference on Virtual Execution Environments, VEE 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 39-49

  Wang, Kun ^a   Rao, Jia ^a   Xu, Cheng Zhong ^a  

^a Wayne State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Cloud computing; Data center; Virtual machine deployment; Virtual machine template

Indexed keywords

COMPUTING INFRASTRUCTURES; DATA CENTERS; DIFFERENT SUBSTRATES; GENERAL PURPOSE; IMAGE FILES; MOBILE GAMING; ON-THE-FLY; PARALLEL COMPUTING; RESOURCE CONFIGURATIONS; SERVER-BASED; TEMPLATE-BASED; TIME-CONSUMING PROCESS; VIRTUAL MACHINES; VIRTUALIZATIONS;

ABSTRACTING; CLONING; CLUSTER COMPUTING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SYSTEMS; LAKES; PARALLEL ARCHITECTURES; SERVERS; SUBSTRATES;

CLOUD COMPUTING;

EID: 79953194800     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1952682.1952690     Document Type: Conference Paper

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