Title :
A Novel Method to Save and Reuse Virtual Computing Environment
Author :
Yanjun Xu ; Bo Wang ; Jinlei Jiang ; Guangwen Yang
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Technol., Tsinghua Univ., Beijing, China
Abstract :
The VM (Virtual Machine) incremental image is not fit for saving virtual computing environment because it may cause crazy disk space increase of virtual machines. This paper analyzes the process of constructing user-specific virtual computing environment on IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) platform, and proposes a novel method based on application virtualization to save and reuse user-specific virtual computing environment in Windows. In this method, the user data is separated from VM OS (Operating System) image and it is very easy to extract user virtual computing environment data as well as user personal data and save it to network storage. These data can then be recovered and reused conveniently and quickly when the user-specific virtual computing environment is reconstructed.
Keywords :
cloud computing; disc storage; operating systems (computers); storage management; virtual machines; virtualisation; IaaS; VM OS; Windows; application virtualization; disk space; infrastructure as a service platform; network storage; operating system image; user personal data; user virtual computing environment data; user-specific virtual computing environment; virtual computing environment reuse; virtual computing environment save; virtual machine incremental image; Application software; Image reconstruction; Operating systems; Servers; Silicon; Virtual machining; IaaS; cloud computing; save and reuse; virtual computing environment;
Conference_Titel :
Computational and Information Sciences (ICCIS), 2013 Fifth International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Shiyang
DOI :
10.1109/ICCIS.2013.32