Virtual Machines in Grid Environments: Dynamic Virtual Machines - Grid Computing: Infrastructure, Service, and Applications - page 393

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Virtual Machines in Grid Environments:
Dynamic Virtual Machines
Cong Du, Prerak Shukla, and Xian-He Sun
CONTENTS
16.1 Introduction ................................................................................ 406
16.1.1 Understanding System Virtualization ......................... 406
16.1.2 Technical Challenges ...................................................... 410
16.2 Recent Work in Virtual Machines for Grids ........................... 412
16.3 Dynamic Virtual Machine: The System Approach ............... 413
16.3.1 Virtual Machine Modeling ............................................ 416
16.3.2 VM Incarnation and Deployment ................................ 417
16.3.3 Virtual Machine Mobility .............................................. 419
16.3.3.1 Runtime State Transfer ..................................... 419
16.3.3.2 Communication State Transfer ....................... 420
16.3.3.3 Experimental Tests and Results ...................... 421
16.3.4 A Case Study of VM Modeling and Incarnation ........ 421
16.3.5 DVM Mobility and Communication State Transfer ... 426
16.4 Conclusions and Future Work .................................................. 428
References ............................................................................................ 429
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