2020•International Journal of Recent Technology and Engineering (IJRTE)Open access

Live Virtual Machine migration: A Performance Test Xen and KVM

Divya Kapil, Tabish Rao

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Virtualization technology has many important features such as live virtual machine migration. In live virtual machine migration, a power on virtual machine is moved from one physical host to another. It has various benefits such as server consolidation, proactive failure, load balancing, energy saving and resource scheduling. Live virtual machine migration is very useful tool in cluster environment, administrators of data centers and in cloud environment. Live virtual machine migration is supported by hypervisors such as Xen, KVM, VMware etc. In this paper we discuss live virtual machine migration Pre-Copy approach which is a default approach in many hypervisors. We compare the performance of virtual machines which are made using Xen and KVM. We also compare performance when virtual machines are migrate using Xen and KVM in cloudreport simulator. In result we find that KVM performs better than Xen.

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Key concepts: Virtual machine, Live migration, Operating system, Hypervisor, Computer science, Virtualization, Temporal isolation among virtual machines, Hardware virtualization