Fast booting many similar virtual machines
Document Type
Conference Proceeding
Publication Date
2010
Department
Department of Computer Science
Abstract
Virtual Machines have been commonly used for server consolidation in data centers, network classrooms, and cloud computing environments. Although booting up a virtual machine takes much less time than booting up a physical computer, booting up multiple virtual machines on a single physical server still takes a lot of time. We propose a method to speed up the booting process when a set of similar virtual machines share a snapshot enabled storage. Our method exploits massive memory page sharing stemming from the reads to common disk blocks by these virtual machines. Our experiments show that the second virtual machine may reduce the booting time by half.
Publication Title
Communications in Computer and Information Science
ISBN
978-3-642-14944-3
Recommended Citation
Wang, X.,
Wang, Z.,
Liang, S.,
Zhang, Z.,
Luo, Y.,
&
Li, X.
(2010).
Fast booting many similar virtual machines.
Communications in Computer and Information Science,
71, 67-74.
http://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-14944-3_8
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