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The design and implementation of Zap: a system for migrating computing environments
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We have created Zap, a novel system for transparent migration of legacy and networked applications. Zap provides a thin virtualization layer on top of the operating system that introduces pods, which are groups of processes that are provided a consistent, virtualized view of the system. This decouples processes in pods from dependencies to the host operating system and other processes on the system. By integrating Zap virtualization with a checkpoint-restart mechanism, Zap can migrate a pod of processes as a unit among machines running independent operating systems without leaving behind any residual state after migration. We have implemented a Zap prototype in Linux that supports transparent migration of unmodified applications without any kernel modifications. We demonstrate that our Linux Zap prototype can provide general-purpose process migration functionality with low overhead. Our experimental results for migrating pods used for running a standard user's X windows desktop computing environment and for running an Apache web server show that these kinds of pods can be migrated with subsecond checkpoint and restart latencies.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Osman, S., Subhraveti, D., Su, G., & Nieh, J.
- Venue
- ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review
- Published
- 2002-12-31
- Volume
- 36
- Issue
- SI
- Pages
- 361-376
- ISSN
- 0163-5980 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2157801087
- Cited by
- 406
- References
- 19
- FWCI
- 19.56
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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