Informed prefetching and caching
SOSP '95 Proceedings of the fifteenth ACM symposium on Operating systems principles
WMCSA '02 Proceedings of the Fourth IEEE Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications
The design and implementation of Zap: a system for migrating computing environments
ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review - OSDI '02: Proceedings of the 5th symposium on Operating systems design and implementation
Distributed File System Support for Virtual Machines in Grid Computing
HPDC '04 Proceedings of the 13th IEEE International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing
The collective: a cache-based system management architecture
NSDI'05 Proceedings of the 2nd conference on Symposium on Networked Systems Design & Implementation - Volume 2
Live migration of virtual machines
NSDI'05 Proceedings of the 2nd conference on Symposium on Networked Systems Design & Implementation - Volume 2
Using BitTorrent to distribute virtual machine images for classes
Proceedings of the 36th annual ACM SIGUCCS fall conference: moving mountains, blazing trails
Post-copy based live virtual machine migration using adaptive pre-paging and dynamic self-ballooning
Proceedings of the 2009 ACM SIGPLAN/SIGOPS international conference on Virtual execution environments
SnowFlock: rapid virtual machine cloning for cloud computing
Proceedings of the 4th ACM European conference on Computer systems
Rapid Provisioning of Cloud Infrastructure Leveraging Peer-to-Peer Networks
ICDCSW '09 Proceedings of the 2009 29th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems Workshops
HiPC'07 Proceedings of the 14th international conference on High performance computing
Efficient Distribution of Virtual Machines for Cloud Computing
PDP '10 Proceedings of the 2010 18th Euromicro Conference on Parallel, Distributed and Network-based Processing
Bag-of-Tasks Scheduling under Budget Constraints
CLOUDCOM '10 Proceedings of the 2010 IEEE Second International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science
Image Distribution Mechanisms in Large Scale Cloud Providers
CLOUDCOM '10 Proceedings of the 2010 IEEE Second International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science
OpenNebula: A Cloud Management Tool
IEEE Internet Computing
Going back and forth: efficient multideployment and multisnapshotting on clouds
Proceedings of the 20th international symposium on High performance distributed computing
FVD: a high-performance virtual machine image format for cloud
USENIXATC'11 Proceedings of the 2011 USENIX conference on USENIX annual technical conference
Scaling OS Streaming through Minimizing Cache Redundancy
ICDCSW '11 Proceedings of the 2011 31st International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems Workshops
Optimizing multi-deployment on clouds by means of self-adaptive prefetching
Euro-Par'11 Proceedings of the 17th international conference on Parallel processing - Volume Part I
Live deduplication storage of virtual machine images in an open-source cloud
Middleware'11 Proceedings of the 12th ACM/IFIP/USENIX international conference on Middleware
ConPaaS: A Platform for Hosting Elastic Cloud Applications
IEEE Internet Computing
VMTorrent: scalable P2P virtual machine streaming
Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Emerging networking experiments and technologies
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In IaaS clouds, VM startup times are frequently perceived as slow, negatively impacting both dynamic scaling of web applications and the startup of high-performance computing applications consisting of many VM nodes. A significant part of the startup time is due to the large transfers of VM image content from a storage node to the actual compute nodes, even when copy-on-write schemes are used. We have observed that only a tiny part of the VM image is needed for the VM to be able to start up. Based on this observation, we propose using small caches for VM images to overcome the VM startup bottlenecks. We have implemented such caches as an extension to KVM/QEMU. Our evaluation with up to 64 VMs shows that using our caches reduces the time needed for simultaneous VM startups to the one of a single VM.