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VMtorrent: virtual appliances on-demand

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ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review, Volume 40, Issue 4

Pages 453 - 454

https://doi.org/10.1145/1851275.1851259

Published: 30 August 2010 Publication History

Abstract

Virtual Appliances (VAs) are Virtual Machines (VMs) geared towards a specific set of tasks. They require little or no configuration, working out-of-the-box. VAs fit neatly into the Cloud Computing paradigm - many copies of an identical machine can be launched in a data center, or home/business users can grab the appliance they need from the cloud to run locally just for so long as required. Companies and projects whose sole offerings are VAs ready for either desktop or data center use [3, 11] attest to the growing popularity of VAs. VMware's Appliance directory alone currently lists over 1400 VAs available for the VMware family of Virtual Machine Monitors (VMMs) [13].

Current VA distribution generally requires download of the complete virtual disk image, only after which the VA can be run. Given that compressed VA sizes run anywhere from several hundred MB to a few GB, there can be significant delays from the time a user decides he/she wants to run a particular VA until the time that VA can be used. These problems are only exacerbated when demand for particular VAs spikes and server bandwidth resources become the distribution bottleneck.

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VMtorrent: virtual appliances on-demand
1. Software and its engineering
  1. Software organization and properties
    1. Contextual software domains
      1. Operating systems

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ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review Volume 40, Issue 4

SIGCOMM '10

October 2010

481 pages

ISSN:0146-4833

DOI:10.1145/1851275

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SIGCOMM '10: Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 2010 conference
August 2010
500 pages
ISBN:9781450302012
DOI:10.1145/1851182
General Chairs:
Shiv Kalyanaraman
IBM Research, India
,
Venkat Padmanabhan
Microsoft Research, India
,
K. K. Ramakrishnan
IBM Research, India
,
Rajeev Shorey
NIIT University, India
,
Program Chairs:
K. K. Ramakrishnan
IBM Research, India
,
Geoffrey M. Voelker
University of California, San Diego, USA

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