International Business Machines Corporation

Jason E Mealins

Peter Benjamin Loer

Dennis Sidney Goodrow

Gregory Mitchell Toto

Benjamin John Kus

James B Evans

Jonathan S Fan

Amrit Tsering Williams

A client hypervisor comprises a virtual agent that runs outside of a system OS and that allows device management independent of the OS and user. The virtual agent is tied to a device and not a specific instance of the OS. Such client hypervisors expose new functionality to ease managing systems. Some of these capabilities come from the persistence and privileges outside the OS. In some embodiments of the invention, this new management functionality is exposed to allow device management via new virtualization concepts, such as multiple VMs per system, VM replacement, snapshot/rollback, etc.

Endpoint-hosted hypervisor management

Growing community of inventors

San Francisco, CA, United States of America

Jason E Mealins