Stability optimization of dynamic migration algorithm for Post-Copy of virtual machine based on KVM

Abstract

The dynamic migration technology of virtual machine provides a strong support for the resource scheduling of virtualization system.As one of the two core algorithms of virtual machine dynamic migration, Post-Copy algorithm has been a hot issue for scholars at home and abroad for its advantages of stable migration time and short migration downtime.The fault tolerance mechanism of virtual machine, the connection between the transfer mode of memory page and the page missing error during the migration process, and the source code of QEMU-KVM platform were studied.A fault tolerant method based on transaction synchronization was proposed to improve the stability of the Post-Copy migration algorithm.The experimental results show that the proposed algorithm can ensure the fast repair of deep end virtual machine failure, target virtual machine failure and network fault during the migration process, and solve the stability problem at a small cost.The method proposed effectively improves the stability of the Post-Copy migration algorithm, and provides reference for the future optimization research direction.

Keywords

• dynamic migration of virtual machine;Post-Copy;fault tolerance;QEMU-KVM