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Live VMmigration is one of the major primitive operations to manage virtualized cloud platforms. In this project, we make a comprehensive analysis on the parallelization opportunities of live VM migration on two popular open-source VMMs (i.e., Xen and KVM). By leveraging abundant resources like CPU cores and NICs in contemporary server platforms, we design and implement a system called PMigrate that leverages data parallelism and pipeline parallelism to parallelize the operation. As the parallelization framework requires intensive mmap/munmap operations that tax the address space management system in an operating system, we further propose an abstraction called range lock, which improves scalability of concurrent mutation to the address space of an operating system (i.e., Linux) by selectively replacing the perprocess address space lock inside kernel with dynamic and finegrained range locks that exclude costly operations on the requesting address range from using the per-process lock. Evaluation with our working prototype on Xen and KVM shows that PMigrate accelerates the live VM migration ranging from 2.49X to 9.88X, and decreases the downtime ranging from 1.9X to 279.89X.