1. A virtualized distributed computing system comprising: a first host system that includes one or more processors, one or more memories, and a management-server agent, the first host system executing an original virtual machine and interconnected with the management server through a network; a second host system that includes one or more processors, one or more memories, and a management-server agent, the second host system interconnected with the first host system and the management server through the network; and the management server, which coordinates a live-virtual-machine migration operation that moves the original virtual machine to the second host system, during which the contents of one or more memory pages are transferred from physical memory within the first host system to a physical memory within the second host system through a remote-data memory access interface to a network-interface controller on one or both of the first and second host systems.