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Building virtual machine disk images for different cloud configurations from a single generic virtual machine disk image

US10445121B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

Red Hat, Inc. · US

Inventors

Ian Scott McLeod · Raleigh, US
Steven M. Loranz · Oak Park, US
Christopher Lalancette · Raleigh, US
John Dunning · Seattle, US
Carl Trieloff · Littleton, US

Key dates

Filing date	Feb 23, 2012
Grant date	Oct 15, 2019
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Apr 28, 2035

Classification

Technology area (CPC G)Physics
CPC primaryG06F2009/4557
WIPO fieldComputer technology
WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A computer system receives a request to instantiate a virtual machine (VM) in a first target cloud and a second target cloud. The target clouds operate with different configuration parameters. The system modifies a generic VM disk image that is not formatted for the first or second target cloud to create a cloud-formatted VM disk image for the first target cloud and a cloud-formatted VM disk image for the second target cloud. The first target cloud cloud-formatted VM disk image is based on the first target cloud configuration parameters, and the second target cloud cloud-formatted VM disk image is based on the second target cloud configuration parameters. The system instantiates a VM in the first target cloud using the first target cloud cloud-formatted VM disk image and a VM in the second target cloud using the second target cloud cloud-formatted VM disk image.

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