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Virtual machine is an emulation environment developed for dependable computing. Live migration mechanism provides the functionality that moves an ongoing virtual machine across hosts seamlessly so as to provide non-stop services. However, service quality cannot be satisfied if excessive pages are synchronized at the stop-and-copy phase. In this paper, a task-guided framework is proposed for live migration to start at an opportune time such that a short service downtime can be guaranteed. In our framework, a code entity which updates pages within a small range or in a low frequency is tagged. Once a tag has been detected, the coordinator either approves a pending live migration request or withdraws the permission to an ongoing live migration depending on the tag types. The prototype which is capable of task-guided live migration has been implemented. Our experiments show that both the service downtime and the task execution time have been improved by our task-guided approach regardless of the possibly existing suspension overhead.
This research is supported by Ministry of Science and Technology under the grant MOST 106-2221-E-197-004.
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Lin, CC., Kuo, YH. (2018). A Framework for Task-Guided Virtual Machine Live Migration. In: Xiang, Y., Sun, J., Fortino, G., Guerrieri, A., Jung, J. (eds) Internet and Distributed Computing Systems. IDCS 2018. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11226. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-02738-4_4
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