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Creating a virtual machine containing third party code

US11157296B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

International Business Machines Corporation · US

Inventors

Ronald P. Doyle · Raleigh, US
Stephen Schmidt · Raleigh, US
Qingbo Wang · Irvine, US
Ruth E. Willenborg · Apex, US

Key dates

Filing date	Sep 15, 2012
Grant date	Oct 26, 2021
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Sep 2, 2037

Classification

Technology area (CPC G)Physics
CPC primaryG06F2009/45562
WIPO fieldComputer technology
WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A Virtual Machine (VM) is created utilizing a virtual Operating System (OS) disk and virtual application disks, each of which may be from disparate third party suppliers. One or more files in the virtual application disk are then linked to a specific file system location (node) in the virtual OS disk.

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