Virtual environment manager for creating and managing virtual machine environments
US9606821B2 · kind B2 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Sep 29, 2006 |
| Grant date | Mar 28, 2017 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Aug 30, 2032 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06F2009/45566
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A virtual environment manager (“VEM”) simplifies the usability of virtual machines and provides users with an enhanced design for creating and/or for managing virtual machines (“VMs”). For example, a user can select description information and management information to be included in descriptors and according to which a VEM will create and manage various VM environments for various host environments. The VEM automatically creates the VM environments and host environments by sending descriptor description information and data files associated with the description information to virtual machine monitors (VMMs), which create the VM environments according to the description information. A VEM at each host may manage VM environments executed by the VMM, according to the descriptor management information. Thus, a set of descriptors to create and manage a set of VMs for a home computer may be easily modified by a user to create and manage a set of VMs for a work or laptop computer.
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