COMSATS University Islamabad
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Asked 6 June 2016
VM migration in Cloud Computing Using Mininet?
I want to migrate virtual machine from one host to another within the datacenter using Mininet. Does mininet provide virtualization facilities or not. Kindly guide me with your answers...
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thank you so much Fouad Benamrane...
that is really helpful
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Instituto Federal de Alagoas
Dear Mr. Muhammad Raheem,
I am not a specialist on MiniNet. But, as far as I know, VM migration is not feasible on MiniNet.
The MiniNet tool aims to "create a realistic virtual network, running real kernel, switch and application code, on a single machine" [1]. The main components in MiniNet are Links, Hosts, Switches and Controllers.
But, the host (where we suppose to run the VM to perform Migration) has limited capabilities. See this part of Stanford original paper [2]:
"A host in Mininet is simply a shell process (e.g. bash) moved into its own network namespace with the unshare(CLONE NEWNET) system call. Each host has its own virtual Ethernet interface(s) (created and installed with ip link add/set) and a pipe to a parent Mininet process, mn, which sends commands and monitors output."
Therefore, I think that it is not possible to run VM Migration within MiniNet.
Hope it helps,
Best regards.
Matheus Torquato.
[1] - http://mininet.org/
[2] - Lantz, Bob, Brandon Heller, and Nick McKeown. "A network in a laptop: rapid prototyping for software-defined networks." Proceedings of the 9th ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks. ACM, 2010.
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Grambling State University
Try the following link.
Also, I would suggest trying a different approach demonstrated in https://www.researchgate.net/.../245281398_A_Split_Protocol.
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COMSATS University Islamabad
Thank you Bharat S Rawal...
the second link you have suggested redirect me to the researchgate main page. Could you kindly be a bit more specific.
that would be helpful
Instituto Federal de Alagoas
Dear Mr. Muhammad Raheem,
I am not a specialist on MiniNet. But, as far as I know, VM migration is not feasible on MiniNet.
The MiniNet tool aims to "create a realistic virtual network, running real kernel, switch and application code, on a single machine" [1]. The main components in MiniNet are Links, Hosts, Switches and Controllers.
But, the host (where we suppose to run the VM to perform Migration) has limited capabilities. See this part of Stanford original paper [2]:
"A host in Mininet is simply a shell process (e.g. bash) moved into its own network namespace with the unshare(CLONE NEWNET) system call. Each host has its own virtual Ethernet interface(s) (created and installed with ip link add/set) and a pipe to a parent Mininet process, mn, which sends commands and monitors output."
Therefore, I think that it is not possible to run VM Migration within MiniNet.
Hope it helps,
Best regards.
Matheus Torquato.
[1] - http://mininet.org/
[2] - Lantz, Bob, Brandon Heller, and Nick McKeown. "A network in a laptop: rapid prototyping for software-defined networks." Proceedings of the 9th ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks. ACM, 2010.
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COMSATS University Islamabad
Thank you Matheus Torquato
Could you please suggest me any other simulator other than cloudsim?
That would be so helpful
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