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Fast Booting Many Similar Virtual Machines

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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.

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  1. Dept. of Computer Science and Technology, Peking University, Beijing, China, 100871

    Xiaolin Wang, Shuang Liang, Zhengyi Zhang, Yingwei Luo & Xiaoming Li

  2. Dept. of Computer Science, Michigan Technological University, USA

    Zhenlin Wang

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  1. Leibniz-Rechenzentrum LRZ, Boltzmannstraße 1, 85748, Garching, Germany

    Latifa Boursas

  2. Oracle, 80021, Broomfield, CO, USA

    Mark Carlson

  3. Services Computing Technology and System Lab, Cluster and Grid Computing Lab, School of Computer Science and Technology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, 430074, Wuhan, China

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  4. IRIT, Université Paul Sabatier, 118 Route de Narbonne, 31062, TOULOUSE CEDEX 9, France

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  5. Distributed Management Task Force, Inc., 1001 SW 5th Avenue #1100, , Portland, 97204, Oregon, USA

    Kes Wold

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Wang, X., Wang, Z., Liang, S., Zhang, Z., Luo, Y., Li, X. (2010). Fast Booting Many Similar Virtual Machines. In: Boursas, L., Carlson, M., Jin, H., Sibilla, M., Wold, K. (eds) Systems and Virtualization Management. Standards and the Cloud. SVM 2009. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 71. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-14944-3_8

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