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Matthew Douglas Hendel

Shuvabrata Ganguly

Lars Reuther

René A Vega

Yuan Zheng

Robert Bradley Bennett

Rajesh Natvarlal Davé

Described is a technology by which a virtual machine may be safely migrated to a computer system with a different platform. Compatibility of the virtual machine may be checked by comparing the virtual machine's capabilities against those of the new platform. To ensure compatibility, when created the virtual machine may have its capabilities limited by the lowest common capabilities of the different platforms available for migration. Computer systems may be grouped into migration pools based upon similar capabilities, and/or a virtual machine may be mapped to certain computer systems based upon capabilities needed by that virtual machine, such as corresponding to needed performance, fault tolerance and/or flexibility.

Virtual machine homogenization to enable migration across heterogeneous computers

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