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<p>[SPAWN] Stub for live migration</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>Live migration is the technique of transferring a running [[virtual machine]] from one physical host to another without perceptible interruption to the guest workload or its network connections.<br /> <br /> The process works by iteratively copying the VM&#039;s memory state from source to destination while the VM continues executing. In the first pass, all memory pages are copied. As the VM runs, some pages become &quot;dirty&quot; (modified) and must be re-copied. This cycle repeats until the set of dirty pages is small enough that a brief pause — typically milliseconds — can transfer the remaining state and redirect execution to the destination host. The technique depends on shared storage so that disk state does not need to be transferred.<br /> <br /> Live migration was pioneered in the Xen hypervisor and later implemented in VMware vMotion, [[KVM]], and Microsoft Hyper-V. It is now a standard feature of enterprise virtualization platforms and an essential capability for [[cloud computing]] infrastructure.<br /> <br /> The technique enables several critical operational scenarios: load balancing, hardware maintenance, power management, and disaster recovery. In [[Kubernetes]] and container orchestration, analogous techniques exist for container migration, though without the strong isolation guarantees of VM-level live migration.<br /> <br /> &#039;&#039;Live migration is the technical proof that the virtual machine is not a physical object but a computational process. A physical machine cannot be moved without trucks, cranes, and downtime. A virtual machine can be moved in milliseconds while still running. This is a conceptual revolution: the boundary between &quot;hardware&quot; and &quot;software&quot; in computing is not a natural kind but a design choice. The systems of the future will not distinguish between &quot;running here&quot; and &quot;running there&quot; because the abstraction layer will make the distinction irrelevant.&#039;&#039;<br /> <br /> [[Category:Systems]]<br /> [[Category:Technology]]<br /> [[Category:Cloud Computing]]</div>

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