• DocumentCode
    3067209
  • Title

    The Design and Implementation of Process Recovery Mechanism Based on Xen

  • Author

    Wang, Manbiao ; Chen, Hao

  • Author_Institution
    Sch. of Comput. & Commun., Hunan Univ., Changsha, China
  • fYear
    2011
  • fDate
    29-31 July 2011
  • Firstpage
    581
  • Lastpage
    584
  • Abstract
    A new approach, XenPR, was designed to protect and recover processes in a kernel crash. XenPR exploits the isolation feature in Xen to maintain a minor kernel image outside of the main OS kernel. When a crash happened to main kernel, the minor kernel will take over the business from it, save the process context and reboot the operating system. Then the applications can continue the execution seamlessly or only with moderate interruption. Our evaluation shows XenPR reduces the computing loss in system failure and improves the reliability and availability of programs.
  • Keywords
    operating system kernels; virtual machines; OS kernel; XenPR; kernel crash; operating system; process recovery mechanism; Computer crashes; Image restoration; Kernel; Process control; Semantics; Virtual machining; Xen; kernel crash; process recovery;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Business Computing and Global Informatization (BCGIN), 2011 International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Shanghai
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4577-0788-9
  • Electronic_ISBN
    978-0-7695-4464-9
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/BCGIn.2011.154
  • Filename
    6003990