METHOD, COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT, AND HARDWARE PRODUCT FOR SUPPORTING VIRTUAL MACHINE GUEST MIGRATION OVERCOMMIT

Virtual machine guest migration overcommit is supported by providing a virtual machine with an unschedulable resource that is not available for system scheduling. The unschedulable resource may, but need not, be provided in the form of a memory buffer, or one or more network resources, or one or mor...

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Hauptverfasser: YU JESSIE, LEFEVRE, JR. FRANK R, MANSELL RAY, DOW ELI M
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Zusammenfassung:Virtual machine guest migration overcommit is supported by providing a virtual machine with an unschedulable resource that is not available for system scheduling. The unschedulable resource may, but need not, be provided in the form of a memory buffer, or one or more network resources, or one or more resources that are accessible from a network. The unschedulable resource is utilized in one or more domains to temporarily conceal one or more user environments that do not fit into a set of currently available resources, such that the one or more temporarily concealed user environments are not terminated or paged out.