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What is the accuracy of these images regarding their geo-referencing and how accurate are they for their use of known sites with control points for geo-referencing?
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Dear Leônidas Luiz Volcato Descovi Filho ,
Yes, I agree with you but it is not always possible to get reference geodetic bases of the first order.
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Is it possible to conduct a real experiment to make voice call over IP to test NFV resiliency using test-bed?
If Yes, is there any open source VoIP servers and client to use them as VNFs in the environment?
How to implement the VoIP server on vIMS, if possible?
Considering the following requirements or your advice:
Scenario: testing real voice call on NFV.
Method: prototyping or test bed.
Metrics: delay, voice quality, packet loss
OS: Linux (what is preferred distribution?)
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The available opensource (or low price) VoIP applications for test-bed are
  • Newfies-Dialer Open Source Autodialer & Voice Broadcasting Solution – Multi-Tenant system comprising Auto-dialer, survey tool, extension dialing (press 1 campaign), voice recording and Do Not Call, with white labeling, SMS and AMD available.
  • ICTDialer Is an Open Source unified communications autodialer and broadcasting software application supporting voice, sms, fax broadcasting.
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while creating instance in openstack i am getting static IP problem. how avoid this?
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you have to verify your localrc file (or openstack network component: neutron)
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When I print the database script file from the xampp it gives me the relationship between the table in a machine language? But I would like want to see the manually primary key and foreign key constraint.
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In phpMyAdmin there is visual tool called "Designer" - you can see all the tables inside the database and relations between the tables - primary and foreign keys
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Dear Researchers;
In energy aware VM scheduling, we tend to determine current server temperature or load before we activate a VM on that server. Is there a way we can predetermine the temperature change when the incoming VM is activated?
Thank you.
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Dear Derdus M Kenga ,
I am trying to see this question from the implementation perspective.
I had an opportunity to work on finding the temperate at the Server side, increasing the CPU temperature of the server through complex math calculations. But I have not tried w.r.t Virtualization. Just Have look into my blog spot. But I am not sure, this is what you are looking for.
If your server supports SMART, I think disk temperature shall also be measured.
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I have installed a Hadoop 2.6.0 Cluster using one NameNode (NN) and 3 DataNodes (DN). Two DNs are on two physical machine running Ubuntu while 3rd DN is virtual node running Ubuntu on window server. Two physical DNs have 2 GB RAM and Intel Xenon 2.0 GHz Processor x 4 (i.e. 4 cores). While 3rd DN is assigned with 4 GB RAM and 1 processor x 4 (i.e. 4 cores) and it is running on window server which have 32 GB RAM and 2 Intel Xenon 2.30 GHz processors x 6 (i.e 12 cores).
Mappers running on Physical DNs are faster than Mappers running on Virtual DN. Why ? 
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VIDHYASAGAR
That's depend of the visualization you build. If you use direct DD access you get good performance, but your VM is not movable. If you use virtual disk you can move all the virtual machine relatively quickly. But you pay the virtual disk management and the COW if you use snapshot.
There are no dream IBM invent the virtual machine in 1970 and everyone know the cost.
So it's the balance between usability of management and performance cost. You can;t have both.
Sorry. !
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Is this possible with Libvirt or there exists some other means?
NOTE: This can be done within the Guests themselves but the interest here is to get the stat externally at the host. I have seen an approach for KVM but haven't seen anything for XEN servers.
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Hello Olumuyiwa Emmanuel Ibidunmoye ,
I am not sure whether this would be helpful or not.
How about this command ?
xm vcpu-list
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I have little knowledge about the server consolidation tools but I am not very skilled so I need to know the open source tools available.
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  1. Open Source Tools : GlusterFS
  2. Ceph's technical foundation is the Reliable Autonomic Distributed Object Store (RADOS),
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The goal is to be able to manage multiple services on the same host in a Xen environment. Xentop provides CPU utilization for each VM running on the host and we have also been able to do thesame in realtime using the Libvirt framework.
However, since MEMORY is not shared but pre-allocated (at VM creation time) and scaled with ballooning by the hypervisor, the host has no knowledge of how each domain is using their shares, whether for caching, buffering or whatever. So using xentop and virsh memory options will always produce the fixed memory shares.
I have similar problem with getting the DISK (guests are granted direct access to disk resources) and NETWORK utilizations for each domain externally from the VMs. 
Please kindly drop any experience or suggestions you may have here. 
NB: One alternative is to find other means to derive the MEMORY utilization of each domain from maybe their CPU utilization or some other counters on the host directly. If you have links to papers or you have an idea and methods to achieve this please kindly state here. 
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u can use xenstore to access the memory and vcpu usage.
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To migrate a Virtual Machine(VM) from mobile device to a nearest Cloudlet, which linux query is needed to write for triggering the resume state of the server virtual machine? Where to write this Script ? Is it possible that Use a windows 7 or any Microsoft Windows as host OS and then migrate the VM to test ?
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I'd like to help with this, but could you please rephrase your question. I can not understand what you are trying to do? Your question is very confusing.
Are you trying to copy a virtual machine from one host to another and then run it? Is that what you are trying to ask about?
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Can we allocate resources in different way of vmallocation?
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In live migration, Can be measure load balance capacity of all Virtual Machine with the respect of VM distance? Which method is effective and what will be do for future efficiency enhancement in live migration.  
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Please define VM distance ?
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Node consolidation, data centers, grid computing are used to save power in access network. Please tell me how power is reduced.
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data centers house thousands of compute, store, and communicate devices to service users requests and application. While energy efficiency is not a goal, the major business objective of most of cloud providers is to achieve minimum service downtime and efficient response. However, if energy efficiency is a goal, virtualization can be used to limit the number of servers that are powerd on. Workload from under-utilized servers can be migrated and consolidated on fewer number of servers, thus achieving energy efficiency. The overhead to workload migration come in terms of IP changes and storage migration cost etc. 
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In IaaS cloud computing, VM migration is achieved in order to load balancing, fault tolerance, maintenance etc. with out the consent of end user or cloud consumer. In this process of VM migration what components of VM will be modified? Will OS running on VM will be changed or remain same? Will Core components of VM such as BIOS, Boot Loader, OS be changed during migration of VM?
Thanks in anticipation.   
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I am not sure if you are interested in this since it is - in most cases - not a "core component"; and you were looking for core components in your questions
But there is a component that is not migratable without special precautionary measure: the vTPM which stands for virtual Trusted Platform Module.
If you are further interested in this let me know I can give you more details; For the moment I just give you some links/papers on the issue:
Xinlong Liang; Rui Jiang; Huafeng Kong, "Secure and reliable VM-vTPM migration in private cloud," Instrumentation and Measurement, Sensor Network and Automation (IMSNA), 2013 2nd International Symposium on
My paper is not about VM migration in particular but you can use it as an introduction to TPM if you like:
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Though Virtual Machine is sandboxed, what are the potential security issues ?
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You may like to see VM escape type of attacks which remain a challenge.
Rakesh Sehgal
Honeynet Technology Development, CDAC Mohali
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We are hosting our institutional application based services on virtual server but as I think cloud servers are the best rather than using virtual servers. Can anyone help me in clearing these issues?
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I agree with Arun that the cost plays a big role in this. In addition, I would also think of the complexity of the solution such as technical / data interfaces with the other in-house institution applications, data confidentiality and security issues, data migration from legacy systems etc.
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I am looking for a free solution for slaves-master-clients type distributed computing.
More precisely, I have 30 PCs (identical configurations) that I’d like to put into a grid of slaves that would be coordinated by a single master computer in order for the master computer to run a virtual machine with its computational power being drawn from parallel processing across the provided slave grid.
On this virtual machine, I’d run an operating system (Windows or a Linux distribution) and a VR server which is very demanding and it should be able to handle many connections (this is why I require a lot of computational power).
I'm trying to accomplish this with 30 PC’s (they are somewhat powerful) and a fast gigabit local network, instead of buying a dedicated server.
Can anyone suggest an easy to implement solution that I could try?
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Hey Milan...try Eucalyptus.
It is an environment to build private and hybrid cloud. A very easy tutorial for installation is available over internet.
I am also working on it. May be we can come up with a good results.
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I am new in this field and am trying to explore the field but after going through many papers related to these topics I couldn't find what the key parameters in VMs are. Most of them have considered cpu, memory and time but these are not sufficient , are they?
Suppose any client wants to execute some programme on cloud and she/he asks for a particular environment(in general). what are the things she/he might want from a vendor?
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Hi Brijendra,
If I understand you correctly you want to find out what resources are shared between VMs. The VMs practically share all resources of the virtual infrastructure including virtual switch, host NICs, network, datastore, memory and CPU.
The vSphere scheduler transparently manages CPU and memory resources among competing VMs. The VM administrator can establish resource pools and shares to ensure resource requirements of VMs are met and the environment runs smoothly.
Hope this answers your question.
Asaf