FVD: A high-performance virtual machine image format for cloud

Proceedings of the 2011 USENIX Annual Technical Conference, USENIX ATC 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2019, Pages 229-234

  Tang, Chunqiang ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOUD COMPUTING; CRYPTOGRAPHY; NETWORK SECURITY;

ADAPTIVE PREFETCHING; BLOCK DEVICES; CLOUD ENVIRONMENTS; CONFIGURABILITY; COPY ON WRITE; DIRECT-ATTACHED STORAGES; IMAGE FORMAT; VM MIGRATIONS;

VIRTUAL MACHINE;

EID: 85077042908     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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