Design and implementation of content based page sharing method in Xen

Modern computers are not only sufficiently powerful but also inexpensive. However there are few opportunities for application programs to use its capabilities. On the other hand, the number of computers has been increasing in the business sectors and other fields. Thus there are a lot of needless modern computer utilizations. As these solutions, researchers interested with the utilization of virtual machines (VMs) have been rising. The VM system enables consolidation of several real machines. As we consolidate real machine, another problem occurs. It may run several the same operating systems (OSs) which have identical application program, component and data on a machine. In this case, real machine’s memory has same contents. If many machines are consolidated by VM, it is verbose. We have been developing original VM system based on open source and high-quality VM system Xen. In this paper, we improved memory management system of Xen and consider the method for decreasing verbose memory on real machine. We propose the design and implementation method of content based page sharing method in Xen.