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http://dx.doi.org/10.9708/jksci/2012.17.9.127

A Tool for Analyzing VM Creation Failure caused by Virtual Disk Faults  

Ku, Min-O (School of Computer Science and Engineering, Konkuk University)
Min, Dug-Ki (School of Computer Science and Engineering, Konkuk University)
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Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information / v.17, no.9, 2012 , pp. 127-138 More about this Journal
Abstract
In this paper, we present a tool (named VMBootFailMonitor) to detect and analyze a failure of a VM boot creation caused by faults on virtual disks of a Xen-based VM. Also, we presents an architecture and detail analysis process of the virtual disk faults in our tool. Especially, VMBootFailMonitor provides a causual analysis result for a case of VM creation failure based on three modules which performs virtual disk analysis, virtualized system analysis and system log analysis. We also support a comparison result between boot times of normal VMs and fault detection times of VM creation based on abnormal virtual disks. At result, our tool detects VM boot failures (3~6 seconds) within normal VM boot times (8~16 seconds).
Keywords
Virtualization; VM Creation; Virtual Disk Fault; Virtual Machine; Cloud Computing;
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