Optimizing the migration of virtual computers

Operating Systems Review (ACM)

Volumn 36, Issue Special Issue, 2002, Pages 377-390

  Sapuntzakis, Constantine R ^a   Chandra, Ramesh ^a   Pfaff, Ben ^a   Lain, Monica S ^a   Rosenblum, Mendel ^a   Chow, Jim ^a  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COPY ON WRITE; DEMAND PAGING; DISK DATA; PROTOTYPE SYSTEM; RUNNING PROCESS; SOFTWARE UPDATES; SYSTEM MANAGEMENT; USER MOBILITY;

EID: 84978370540     PISSN: 01635980     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/844128.844163     Document Type: Conference Paper

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