CloudDVMM: Distributed Virtual Machine Monitor for Cloud Computing

With the wide application of virtualization and cloud computing, it becomes an increasingly urgent problem of how to use a virtual machine monitor to integrate the increasing amount of distributed cloud computing nodes to improve their utility and reliability. Existing popular virtual machine monitors like Xen, VMware ESX Server, etc. are mostly acts as a fundamental infrastructure for the virtualization of one single cloud computing node. However, there are few researches on a virtual machine monitor for those distributed nodes under cloud computing environment. This paper introduces a novel distributed virtual machine monitor for cloud computing (CloudDVMM). We present its theoretical model, architecture and key technologies. Experiments and comparisons with existing researches show that CloudDVMM achieves better performance in distributed architecture, extensibility, etc. and is promising for meeting the integration requirements of distributed virtual computing and cloud computing environments.