Re: [openstack-dev] [Nova][blueprint] Accelerate the booting process of a number of vms via VMThunder

2014-04-30 Thread lihuiba
Sorry for being late. I was busy with something else these days. It'll be great to have a dedicated image transferring library that provides both pre-copying and zero-copying sematics, and we are glad to have VMThunder integrated in it. Before that library is done, however, we plan to propose

Re: [openstack-dev] [Nova][blueprint] Accelerate the booting process of a number of vms via VMThunder

2014-04-26 Thread lihuiba
3 23:02:29,"Jay Pipes" wrote: >On Wed, 2014-04-23 at 13:56 +0800, lihuiba wrote: >> >For live migration, we use shared storage so I don't think it's quite >> >the same as getting/putting image bits from/to arbitrary locations. >> With a good zero-copy t

Re: [openstack-dev] [Nova][blueprint] Accelerate the booting process of a number of vms via VMThunder

2014-04-22 Thread lihuiba
>For live migration, we use shared storage so I don't think it's quite >the same as getting/putting image bits from/to arbitrary locations.With a good >zero-copy transfer lib, live migration support can be extended to non-shared >storage, or cross-datacenter. It's a kind ofvalue. >task = image

Re: [openstack-dev] [Nova][blueprint] Accelerate the booting process of a number of vms via VMThunder

2014-04-17 Thread lihuiba
Thunder is a scalable and cost-effective >> accelerator for bulk provisioning of virtual machines. >> >> >> >> We hope to receive your feedbacks. Any comments are extremely welcome. >> Thanks in advance. >> >> >> >> PS: >> >&

Re: [openstack-dev] [Nova][blueprint] Accelerate the booting process of a number of vms via VMThunder

2014-04-17 Thread lihuiba
ol can be done with tc. >btw, we are doing some works to make Glance to integrate Cinder as a >unified block storage backend. That sounds interesting. Is there some more materials? At 2014-04-18 06:05:23,"Zhi Yan Liu" wrote: >Replied as inline comments. > >On Thu,

Re: [openstack-dev] [Nova][blueprint] Accelerate the booting process of a number of vms via VMThunder

2014-04-17 Thread lihuiba
glance-bittorrent-delivery and VMThunder have similar goals fast provisioning of large amount of VMs, and they share some ideas like P2P transferring, but they go with different techniques. VMThunder only downloads data blocks that are really used by VMs, so as to reduce bandwith and tim

Re: [openstack-dev] [Nova][blueprint] Accelerate the booting process of a number of vms via VMThunder

2014-04-17 Thread lihuiba
hing is something close to CoR. In fact, we are working on a kernel module called foolcache that realize a true CoR. See https://github.com/lihuiba/dm-foolcache. National Key Laboratory for Parallel and Distributed Processing, College of Computer Science, National University of Defense T

Re: [openstack-dev] [Nova][blueprint] Accelerate the booting process of a number of vms via VMThunder

2014-04-17 Thread lihuiba
ope to receive your feedbacks. Any comments are extremely welcome. > Thanks in advance. > > > > PS: > > > > VMThunder enhanced nova blueprint: > https://blueprints.launchpad.net/nova/+spec/thunderboost > > VMThunder standalone project: https://launchpad.net/vmthunder; &