Vmware, Inc.

Sriram Balasubramanian

Narendra Madanapalli

Reghuram Vasanthakumari

Muzibur Shaik

Narayanasamy Ramesh

Thangamani Kasi

Nishant Shreshth

Praveen Rudrappa

The current document is directed to a subsystem that is incorporated, in one implementation, within an automated application-release-management system. The subsystem to which the current document is directed determines, based on modifications to the source code for an application or another system that are submitted through a check-in process, a subset of tests within a large set of tests developed to test the application or system that invoke routines or other compilation units affected by the submitted source-code modifications. Only those tests that invoke routines and other compilation units affected by the source-code submissions need then be applied during testing and verification of the revised application or system.

Method and system for test-execution optimization in an automated application-release-management system during source-code check-in

Techniques are disclosed for network-less provisioning of guest operating system and software. In one embodiment, a monitor process mounts a floppy image or ISO storing a deployment tool on a virtual CD/DVD device or virtual floppy device, respectively, of a VM and powers on the VM. The deployment tool is invoked upon powering on of the VM and requests that the monitor mount an OS ISO image on the virtual CD/DVD device. In response, the monitor mounts the OS ISO and transmits an acknowledgment to the deployment tool, which initiates OS installation from the OS ISO image. After the OS installation, the deployment tool transmits a further request that monitor clean-up resources consumed during the OS installation and reboots the VM, after which a similar process may be undertaken to install software for the VM.

Method and system for network-less guest OS and software provisioning

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Sriram Balasubramanian