Communications of the ACM
Transparent process migration: design alternatives and the sprite implementation
Software—Practice & Experience
Heterogeneous process migration: the Tui system
Software—Practice & Experience
The Vision of Autonomic Computing
Computer
Managing Checkpoints for Parallel Programs
IPPS '96 Proceedings of the Workshop on Job Scheduling Strategies for Parallel Processing
Proceedings of the Workshop on Micro-kernels and Other Kernel Architectures
Accent: A communication oriented network operating system kernel
SOSP '81 Proceedings of the eighth ACM symposium on Operating systems principles
Supporting ubiquitous computing with stateless consoles and computation caches
Supporting ubiquitous computing with stateless consoles and computation caches
Xen and the art of virtualization
SOSP '03 Proceedings of the nineteenth ACM symposium on Operating systems principles
Improving the reliability of commodity operating systems
SOSP '03 Proceedings of the nineteenth ACM symposium on Operating systems principles
Devirtualizable virtual machines enabling general, single-node, online maintenance
ASPLOS XI Proceedings of the 11th international conference on Architectural support for programming languages and operating systems
Solaris Zones: Operating System Support for Consolidating Commercial Workloads
LISA '04 Proceedings of the 18th USENIX conference on System administration
Scale and performance in the Denali isolation kernel
OSDI '02 Proceedings of the 5th symposium on Operating systems design and implementationCopyright restrictions prevent ACM from being able to make the PDFs for this conference available for downloading
The design and implementation of Zap: a system for migrating computing environments
OSDI '02 Proceedings of the 5th symposium on Operating systems design and implementationCopyright restrictions prevent ACM from being able to make the PDFs for this conference available for downloading
Optimizing the migration of virtual computers
OSDI '02 Proceedings of the 5th symposium on Operating systems design and implementationCopyright restrictions prevent ACM from being able to make the PDFs for this conference available for downloading
Providing dynamic update in an operating system
ATEC '05 Proceedings of the annual conference on USENIX Annual Technical Conference
SSYM'03 Proceedings of the 12th conference on USENIX Security Symposium - Volume 12
Libckpt: transparent checkpointing under Unix
TCON'95 Proceedings of the USENIX 1995 Technical Conference Proceedings
No more HotDependencies: toward dependency-agnostic online upgrades in distributed systems
HotDep'07 Proceedings of the 3rd workshop on on Hot Topics in System Dependability
Secure isolation of untrusted legacy applications
LISA'07 Proceedings of the 21st conference on Large Installation System Administration Conference
Reboots are for hardware: challenges and solutions to updating an operating system on the fly
ATC'07 2007 USENIX Annual Technical Conference on Proceedings of the USENIX Annual Technical Conference
Dynamic rebinding for marshalling and update, via redex-time and destruct-time reduction
Journal of Functional Programming
Proceedings of the 10th ACM/IFIP/USENIX International Conference on Middleware
Middleware'09 Proceedings of the ACM/IFIP/USENIX 10th international conference on Middleware
Operating system virtualization: practice and experience
Proceedings of the 3rd Annual Haifa Experimental Systems Conference
Safe and automatic live update for operating systems
Proceedings of the eighteenth international conference on Architectural support for programming languages and operating systems
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Patching, upgrading, and maintaining operating system software is a growing management complexity problem that can result in unacceptable system downtime. We introduce AutoPod, a system that enables unscheduled operating system updates while preserving application service availability. AutoPod provides a group of processes and associated users with an isolated machine-independent virtualized environment that is decoupled from the underlying operating system instance. This virtualized environment is integrated with a novel checkpoint-restart mechanism which allows processes to be suspended, resumed, and migrated across operating system kernel versions with different security and maintenance patches. AutoPod incorporates a system status service to determine when operating system patches need to be applied to the current host, then automatically migrates application services to another host to preserve their availability while the current host is updated and rebooted. We have implemented AutoPod on Linux without requiring any application or operating system kernel changes. Our measurements on real world desktop and server applications demonstrate that AutoPod imposes little overhead and provides sub-second suspend and resume times that can be an order of magnitude faster than starting applications after a system reboot. AutoPod enables systems to autonomically stay updated with relevant maintenance and security patches, while ensuring no loss of data and minimizing service disruption.