Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Chandramouleswaran Ravichandran

Sushant Pramod Rewaskar

Md Daud Hossain Howlader

Aswin Parthasarathy Akkur Rajamannar

Murtaza Muidul Huda Chowdhury

Bowen Xu

Douglas William Jordan

Vipul Arunkumar Somani

Xinyan Zan

Nisheeth Srivastava

Ashish Bhargava

Jayesh Kumaran

Naveen Prabhat

Yitzchok Meir Pinkesz

Daniel James Pearson

Daud Hossain Howlader

The disclosed technology is generally directed to virtual machines. In one example of the technology, a first virtual machine executing on a first virtual machine host is reconfigured without rebooting the first virtual machine. The reconfiguring includes controlling the following actions. At least one compute artifact of a plurality of compute artifacts is associated with a first user that is associated with the first virtual machine. At least one compute artifact of the plurality of compute artifacts is modified. A configuration is published to the first virtual machine host.

Virtual machine server-side compute reconfiguration

Techniques are described herein that are capable of pausing deployment of a pre-provisioned virtual machine. Deployment of a virtual machine on a computing system is initiated. The deployment of the virtual machine is paused, prior to execution of code that depends on a name of the virtual machine, to wait for receipt of user-specific setting(s) of the virtual machine. The deployment of the virtual machine is continued based at least in part on receipt of the user-specific setting(s). Continuing the deployment includes configuring the virtual machine to have at least one of the user-specific setting(s).

Pausing deployment of a virtual machine prior to a machine name dependency

The disclosed technology is generally directed to virtual machines. In one example of the technology, data associated with a virtual machine configuration request is received. A first virtual machine to be reconfigured is provided. The first virtual machine is booted. The first virtual machine is a system virtual machine, the first virtual machine is re-provisioned into be reconfigured in accordance with the virtual machine configuration request without rebooting the first virtual machine.

Virtual machine compute re-configuration

Techniques are described for improving the boot performance of an operating system (OS) used to launch a virtual machine. In embodiments, a request is received that identifies an OS image and that includes information indicative of when a boot-up process of the OS is complete. A boot-up process of the OS is then performed until complete, as indicated by the information, which includes loading a portion of the OS image from a virtual hard drive. During performance of the process, data is obtained that identifies logical units in the virtual hard drive that are accessed to obtain the portion of the OS image. A copy of the virtual hard drive that include the OS image and the data is then stored so that it can be used to facilitate launching a virtual machine through selective pre-fetching of only the identified logical units from the copy of the virtual hard drive.

Capturing pre-fetch blocks of an operating system to improve boot performance in a cloud environment

The disclosed technology is generally directed to virtual machines. In one example of the technology, generic virtual machine artifacts are created. The generic virtual machine artifacts include at least one generic compute artifact and at least one generic network artifact. A first virtual machine is composed and booted with the generic virtual machine artifacts. The first virtual machine is caused to enter a state in which the first virtual machine is polling for a configuration with user-specific compute settings, user-specific networking settings, and user-specific storage settings.

Deployment of partially provisioned virtual machines

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Chandramouleswaran Ravichandran