Towards fast and lightweight checkpointing for mobile virtualization using NVRAM

• Main Authors: Zhong, Kan, Liu, Duo, Wu, Yunsong, Long, Linbo, Liu, Weichen, Ren, Jinting, Liu, Renping, Liang, Liang, Shao, Zili, Li, Tao
• Other Authors: School of Computer Science and Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2020
• Subjects: Engineering::Computer science and engineering; Mobile Virutalization; Checkpointing
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/144764
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Checkpointing is a key enabler of hibernation, live migration and fault-tolerance for virtual machines (VMs) in mobile devices. However, checkpointing a VM is usually heavyweight: the VM's entire memory needs to be dumped to storage, which induces a significant amount of (slow) I/O operations,...