NDLI: Virtual Machine Migration Method between Different Hypervisor Implementations and Its Evaluation

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Ashino, Y. Nakae, M.
Copyright Year	2012
Abstract	Virtualization technologies are an important building block for cloud services. Each service will run on virtual machines (VMs) deployed over different hyper visors in the future. Therefore, a VM migration method between different hyper visor implementations will be required. Existing methods, such as VM image conversion, generate dead copies of VM images during migration. This causes an operating system running on a VM to fail to boot up after migration and to identify virtual devices provided by destination hyper visors because the dead copied image does not contain requisite files for booting up the copied VM environment. To solve these problems, we propose a VM migration method that generates a destination-dependent VM image before migration. The destination dependency is a set of requisite files enabling a guest OS to boot up from the image, and is determined from the device configurations of destination physical machines and virtual ones. The proposed method extracts the dependency from the file structure that enables the guest OS to run on the destination hyper visor. Our evaluation confirms that the proposed method succeeds in VM migration between hyper visors such as VMWare, Virtual Box, and VirtualPC. As for performance efficiency, our method can reduce the size of a transferred VM image to approximately 20% that of a source VM image.
Starting Page	1089
Ending Page	1094
File Size	209019
Page Count	6
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9781467308670
DOI	10.1109/WAINA.2012.172
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2012-03-26
Publisher Place	Japan
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Conferences Hypervisor Migration VM VMM Virtualization Virtual Machine
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

Sl.	Authority	Responsibilities	Communication Details
1	Ministry of Education (GoI), Department of Higher Education	Sanctioning Authority	https://www.education.gov.in/ict-initiatives
2	Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur	Host Institute of the Project: The host institute of the project is responsible for providing infrastructure support and hosting the project	https://www.iitkgp.ac.in
3	National Digital Library of India Office, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur	The administrative and infrastructural headquarters of the project	Dr. B. Sutradhar bsutra@ndl.gov.in
4	Project PI / Joint PI	Principal Investigator and Joint Principal Investigators of the project	Dr. B. Sutradhar bsutra@ndl.gov.in Prof. Saswat Chakrabarti will be added soon
5	Website/Portal (Helpdesk)	Queries regarding NDLI and its services	support@ndl.gov.in
6	Contents and Copyright Issues	Queries related to content curation and copyright issues	content@ndl.gov.in
7	National Digital Library of India Club (NDLI Club)	Queries related to NDLI Club formation, support, user awareness program, seminar/symposium, collaboration, social media, promotion, and outreach	clubsupport@ndl.gov.in
8	Digital Preservation Centre (DPC)	Assistance with digitizing and archiving copyright-free printed books	dpc@ndl.gov.in
9	IDR Setup or Support	Queries related to establishment and support of Institutional Digital Repository (IDR) and IDR workshops	idr@ndl.gov.in