The 8-minute presentation on my research of self-migrating virtual machines.
Monday, May 11 2009
Final Project Paper Submission
By Scott Armstrong on Monday, May 11 2009, 23:30
The final project paper for CS597 Independent Study.
Friday, May 1 2009
Files for UIUC Presentation on May 1, 2009
By Scott Armstrong on Friday, May 1 2009, 07:47
This is a repository post to consolidate files and reference information for my presentation at UIUC on May 1, 2009.
Tuesday, April 28 2009
Storage considerations for a self-migrating domU
By Scott Armstrong on Tuesday, April 28 2009, 22:44
Storage considerations for a self-migrating system include volume size, complexity of transferring blocks of data, and pre-migration and post-migration work required.
Monday, April 27 2009
Booting and moving between platforms
By Scott Armstrong on Monday, April 27 2009, 20:15
The self-migrating VM (domU) kernel runs in Xen normally. Current task is to access the migrate() user-space function...and then set up the mechanism to connect to the destination platform (also in user space).
Monday, April 20 2009
Migration, old school -- next step is self migration
By Scott Armstrong on Monday, April 20 2009, 20:15
The specially configured domU compiles, and after several challenges, it does migrate when initiated by the VMM. There is still work to do before it will migrate when initiated within the VM.
Sunday, March 29 2009
Self-migrating Linux domU compiles!
By Scott Armstrong on Sunday, March 29 2009, 23:22
After a good deal of sleuthing, I got the domU compiled using Jacob Gorm Hansen's self-migrating code.
Tuesday, March 17 2009
Forward progress, but a lot of work
By Scott Armstrong on Tuesday, March 17 2009, 01:10
Multiple instances of domU running in Xen, but headaches getting the self-migrating domU compiled.
Sunday, March 1 2009
domU booted within Xen
By Scott Armstrong on Sunday, March 1 2009, 22:12
I finally got domU booted within Xen. The snag was the volume needed by domU.
Saturday, February 28 2009
Xen dom0 and domU
By Scott Armstrong on Saturday, February 28 2009, 10:03
The layers are coming together. I have a few instances of Xen + dom0 running.
Sunday, February 22 2009
Ubuntu and Xen - the fine print
By Scott Armstrong on Sunday, February 22 2009, 02:05
I have Xen with dom0 based on Ubuntu running, but it still has a few issues. It seems that, after searching the Ubuntu support pages, they don't support dom0 with Xen in their patches.
Wednesday, February 18 2009
Xen Running (not to be confused with Silent Running)
By Scott Armstrong on Wednesday, February 18 2009, 12:07
Xen is fired up and running, compiled with Ubuntu 8.10, and all of it running in VMWare Fusion.
Sunday, February 15 2009
Installing Xen -- truly an Art
By Scott Armstrong on Sunday, February 15 2009, 23:05
Xen and the Art of Virtualization -- no kidding, it's an art! Compiling and installing Xen, and then getting it to start takes a few tries.
Sunday, February 1 2009
Step 1: Install the Xen hypervisor
By Scott Armstrong on Sunday, February 1 2009, 17:58
Everything I develop or test for this project will run inside a Xen hypervisor.
Thursday, January 29 2009
CS597 First Deliverable: Proposal
By Scott Armstrong on Thursday, January 29 2009, 00:59
The first deliverable for CS597 is a proposal of my project in research paper format.
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