Systems and methods for introspective application reporting to facilitate virtual machine movement between cloud hosts

A system of a centralized server that manages a set of virtual machines comprising:

• a memory;
• and
• a processor, operatively coupled to the memory, being configured to:
• receive, by a kernel-based service integrated in a kernel of the centralized server from an introspection daemon running on a virtual machine in the set of virtual machines, an introspection report comprising configuration state data of the virtual machine for a migration of the virtual machine to at least one target cloud of a plurality of clouds managed by the centralized server, wherein the virtual machine comprises a guest operating system hosting the introspection daemon, wherein the configuration state data comprises an execution state of an application running on the guest operating system of the virtual machine, and wherein the centralized server manages another set of virtual machines in the at least one target cloud;
• in response to receipt of the introspection report from the introspection daemon running on the virtual machine, generate, by the kernel-based service of the centralized server, a virtual machine image of the virtual machine in view of the introspection report;
• and
• initiate, by the kernel-based service of the centralized server, the migration of the virtual machine to at least one target cloud in view of the virtual machine image.

A non-transitory computer-readable medium, the non-transitory computer-readable medium having recorded thereon instructions that when executed by a processor, perform operations comprising:

• receiving, by the processor executing a kernel-based service integrated in a kernel of a centralized server that manages a set of virtual machines, from an introspection daemon running on a virtual machine in the set of virtual machines, an introspection report comprising configuration state data of the virtual machine for a migration of the virtual machine to at least one target cloud of a plurality of clouds managed by the centralized server, wherein the virtual machine comprises a guest operating system hosting the introspection daemon, wherein the configuration state data comprises an execution state of an application running on the guest operating system of the virtual machine, and wherein the centralized server manages another set of virtual machines in the at least one target cloud;
• in response to receiving the introspection report from the introspection daemon running on the virtual machine, generating, by the kernel-based service of the centralized server, a virtual machine image of the virtual machine in view of the configuration state data of the introspection report;
• and
• initiating, by the kernel-based service of the centralized server, the migration of the virtual machine to the at least one target cloud in view of the virtual machine image.