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> For live migration, we use shared storage so I don't think it's quite the same as getting/putting image bits from/to arbitrary locations.</pre><div><div dir="ltr"><div>Hi, I'm the first author of the TPDS paper of VMThunder.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Based on the same techniques and architecture of VMThunder, we have given a new live migration method. As the same as VMThunder, this new live migration method is a storage level solution and can support several kinds of popular hypervisor without modifying them.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Technically, this method is a pre-copy and post-copy hybrid method and based on a previous work of ours, which is a live storage migration. (DLSM: Decoupled Live Storage Migration with Distributed Device Mapper Storage. <font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12px"><i>accepted by t</i></span></font><i style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:12px">he 8th IEEE International Symposium on Service-Oriented System Engineering (SOSE)</i><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:12px">, Oxford, U.K. April, 2014.</span>)</div>
<div><br></div><div>We are now working on this method and preparing to post a new paper to one coming conference.</div><div><br></div><div>In summary, I think that the architecture of VMThunder is a powerful platform that can support several popular IaaS features, like large scale provisioning, bulk data dissemination, live migration, live spawning, and etc. (VM cluster live spawning is also a current work of us that still under researching)</div>
<div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Regards,<br></div><div><br></div><div>Thank you!<br></div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-family:'Sans Serif',Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~</span><br>
</div><div>Brian Zhaoning Zhang</div><div>PhD Cand.</div><div>PDL, NUDT</div></div></div>
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