Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Nihar Niranjan Shah

Anna Marion Pfoertsch

Roberth Karman

Samantha Madeline Song

Andrew J Ritz

Pankaj Garg

Attilio Mainetti

Vinod K K L Swamy

Edward J Reed

Examples of the present disclosure describe systems and methods for a windowing container that enables two or more windows associated with application(s) to be grouped within the container such that the windows may behave or function uniformly as a single window. For example, responsive to a request to group two windows, a container may be generated to include the windows arranged based on one or more rules and features enabling group functions associated with the container to be performed. When a group function is performed on the container, the function may be performed to each of the windows arranged therein as if they were a single window. As new windows are grouped within or existing windows are released from the container, the container and/or windows may be rearranged based on the rules. A state of the container may be stored to enable subsequent invocation of the container after closing.

Windowing container

A planned virtual machine, for use in staging the construction of a virtual machine. Such a planned virtual machine may be used as part of a method for migrating virtual machines. The method may include creating a planned virtual machine based on a first realized virtual machine or a template, performing a configuration operation on the planned virtual machine, and converting the planned virtual machine to a second realized virtual machine. The configuration operation may comprise interaction with a virtualization platform managing the planned virtual machine and may be based on input provided by a user.

Planned virtual machines

In one embodiment, a portable virtual machine may use a generic resource allocation request to access a host resource. A virtualization host may receive a generic resource allocation requestfrom a portable virtual machine. The virtualization host may provide a host resource to the portable virtual machinebased on the generic resource allocation request

Virtual machine mobility using resource pools

Configurable planned virtual machines

Systems, methods, and computer storage media are described herein that configure a switch extension associated with a virtual switch with one or more settings. In response to the configuring, the systems, methods, and computer storage media persist the one or more settings and apply the persisted one or more settings to a target switch extension of a target virtual switch. The systems, methods, and computer storage media receive the settings through a management interface. Also, the systems, methods, and computer storage media receive requests for information associated with the switch extension and provide the switch extension information in response.

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Nihar Niranjan Shah