added references on migrating VMs

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There are several good papers on how to migrate whole virtual machines among
nodes to replicate them but for the GGS a different approach has been chosen.
There are several good papers (e.g.
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) on how to migrate whole virtual machines among nodes to replicate them
but for the GGS a different approach has been chosen.
Instead of duplicating a virtual machine, an attempt to lift the state
of the VM to a storage external to the VM is made.
The state is stored in a fast, fault tolerant data store instead of inside