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A remote USB architecture for virtual machine oriented device sharing and transparent migration

  • Ye Jiao*
  • , Tianyu Wo
  • , Bo Li
  • *Corresponding author for this work
  • Beihang University

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Abstract

IaaS cloud environments which are driven by virtualization technologies enable managing applications and resources in a cost-efficient way and become the main operating environments of modern data centers. While, in such environments, how to use remote peripheral devices in a virtual machine (VM) becomes a key research problem, and the problem is aggravated when facing VM migration. The state of the art migration technologies lack for the consideration of peripheral devices, which can result in data loss. To address these two problems, the paper presents a remote USB architecture, which consists of two parts: the virtual machine oriented USB device sharing (VMDS) and transparent virtual USB device migration (TVDM). VMDS is used to share locally attached USB devices to remote virtual machines, and TVDM supports continuous accessing to remote devices during virtual machine live migration. A system based on Linux and KVM is implemented to demonstrate the ideas. Experimental evaluations illustrate the systems excellent usability and performance.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 2012 IEEE 18th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems, ICPADS 2012
Pages744-749
Number of pages6
DOIs
StatePublished - 2012
Event18th IEEE International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems, ICPADS 2012 - Singapore, Singapore
Duration: 17 Dec 201219 Dec 2012

Publication series

NameProceedings of the International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems - ICPADS
ISSN (Print)1521-9097

Conference

Conference18th IEEE International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems, ICPADS 2012
Country/TerritorySingapore
CitySingapore
Period17/12/1219/12/12

Keywords

  • Linux
  • Live migration
  • Remote share
  • USB device
  • Virtual machine

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