… boot time of a VM. Relying on the gathered information, we propose a first-class model that
is able to calculate the boot time … affect the boot time and should be considered in the model. …

… boot time prediction model is necessary to address the limitations of the existing prediction
models. … Then, we discuss the existing VM boot time prediction models, which can be divided …

… We analyze and model VM startup performance via simulation. We observe that non-… To
study VM startup time in a specific context, we use a co-designed x86 virtual machine based on …

… a VM boot time model [20]. The motivation of this work was to propose an accurate model
for VM … Part III of this thesis describes the contributions related to the boot time optimization. …

… order to minimize the impact of cloud management tools, ie, OpenNebula in our case, on
VM launching process, we count VM start time as the time when a VM is deployed on the host …

… boot a trusted virtual machine. We use our model to illustrate that TBoot can boot a trusted
virtual … And we use this model in the launch process of the virtual machine system. This …

… counts from Model Specific … the time just before the VM is loaded and at the first point that
a user-level program can execute code on the VM; the delta between the two is the startup time. …

… random, to more accurately model the real world. It is also important that the virtual machines
be very lightweight: … We fell back on a hack: we used pdsh to start up command files on the …

… I/O model of the current virtual machine monitor like Xen is not suitable to support real-time …
It can only boot up the simple guest OS and perform a small number of tests. Recent paper […

… running a single application on a virtual machine in the cloud. It … We demonstrate its sub-second
boot time, small OS image … , a memory model, and a threading model, a general purpose …