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Systems and methods to provide failover support for booting embedded hypervisor from an internal non-volatile memory card

US7877639B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateNov 6, 2008
Grant dateJan 25, 2011
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Expiry dateAug 7, 2029

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  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG06F11/1666
  • WIPO fieldComputer technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

The present disclosure further relates to information handling systems with failover support for booting an embedded hypervisor, the information handling system. For example, an information handling system with failover support may comprise a processor; one or more applications configured to be executed, at least in part, by the processor; a memory communicatively coupled to the processor and comprising a basic input/output system (BIOS), the BIOS comprising a BIOS universal serial bus (USB) driver, the BIOS USB driver comprising a mass storage device driver; a primary internal embedded hypervisor non-volatile memory (NVM) card communicatively coupled to the memory, the first NVM card comprising a first bootable hypervisor image; and a back up internal embedded hypervisor NVM card communicatively coupled to the memory, the second NVM card comprising a second bootable hypervisor image.

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