According to the
virtual machine starting method and equipment, the diskless technology is applied to the cloud game scene on the basis of the pre-starting execution environment (PXE), so that the
virtual machine runs in a memory, quick starting can be achieved, and the storage space is not occupied. According to the invention, the distributed DHCP service and the TFTP service are deployed on eachphysical
host machine node through the cloud platform control module; in combination with a
virtual power supply control module compatible with an IPMI instruction, a
mirror image storage
server is used for directly issuing a
mirror image to start the
virtual machine without using a main storage method, so that diskless
quick start of the cloud game virtual
machine is achieved. According to the method, the distributed DHCP service and the TFTP service are used, the virtual
machine power management module compatible with the IPMI instruction is combined, then the
mirror image storage
server isused for directly issuing the mirror image to start the virtual
machine, a main storage method is not used, and diskless
quick start of the cloud game virtual machine is achieved.