Vmware, Inc.

Greg Hutchins

Shaw Chuang

Satyam B Vaghani

Mallik Mahalingam

Bich Cau Le

Christian Czezatke

Vishnu Mohan Sekhar

A method and system for acquiring a quiesceing set of information associated with a virtual machine. A virtual machine is cloned. The cloned virtual machine has an associated persistent storage device. The state of the persistent storage device is transformed into a quiesced state of the cloned virtual machine by utilizing a shut-down process. The shut-down process is executed on the cloned virtual machine to quiesce the cloned virtual machine and the quiesceing set of information of the cloned virtual machine is automatically reduced to information stored on the persistent storage device.

Method and system for acquiring a quiesceing set of information associated with a virtual machine

A method and system for offloading a software application intended to be run on a first virtual machine onto a second virtual machine. An original virtual machine is created. A periodic and/or computing resource-intensive application is supposed to be run on the original virtual machine. However, doing so may detrimentally impact the operation of the original virtual machine by consuming valuable computing resources. A replicated virtual machine which is basically a copy of the original virtual machine is created and ported over to a different host computer system. The periodic and/or computing-intensive application is now run on the replicated virtual machine instead of the original virtual machine. This leaves the original virtual machine free to continue its normal operations unaffected.

Offloading operations to a replicate virtual machine

In a virtualization computer system, a method and system that does not exclusively allocate I/O devices, for example, storage and networking devices, to a commodity operating system (COS) when mainly used for booting the virtualization system. Those I/O devices needed by the COS are accessed via virtual machine kernel drivers, thereby giving the COS the benefits of operation derived from features in the virtual machine kernel that is provided for these I/O devices.

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Greg Hutchins