A Generic Catalog and Repository Service for Virtual Machine Images

Jose V. Carrión, Germán Moltó, Carlos De Alfonso, Miguel Caballer, and Vicente Hernández. A Generic Catalog and Repository Service for Virtual Machine Images. In 2nd International ICST Conference on Cloud Computing (CloudComp 2010), pp. 1–15, 2010.

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Abstract

The widespread usage of virtualization has caused a major impact in disparate areas such as scientific computing, industrial businesses and academic environments. This has led to a massive production of Virtual Machine Images (VMIs). The management of this broad spectrum of VMIs should consider the variety of operating systems, applications and hypervisors. This paper describes the developments towards a catalog and repository system for VMIs. Using the industry standard Open Virtualization Format (OVF) the system offers indexing and storage capabilities of VMIs as well as user-oriented matchmaking algorithms to leverage VMI sharing.

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@inproceedings{Molto2010agc,
   abstract = {The widespread usage of virtualization has caused a major impact in disparate areas such as scientific computing, industrial businesses and academic environments. This has led to a massive production of Virtual Machine Images (VMIs). The management of this broad spectrum of VMIs should consider the variety of operating systems, applications and hypervisors. This paper describes the developments towards a catalog and repository system for VMIs. Using the industry standard Open Virtualization Format (OVF) the system offers indexing and storage capabilities of VMIs as well as user-oriented matchmaking algorithms to leverage VMI sharing.},
   author = {Jose V. Carrión and Germán Moltó and Carlos De Alfonso and Miguel Caballer and Vicente Hernández},
   booktitle = {2nd International ICST Conference on Cloud Computing (CloudComp 2010)},
   pages = {1-15},
   title = {A Generic Catalog and Repository Service for Virtual Machine Images},
   year = {2010}
}