Red Hat, Inc.

Willard Woods

Robin Joel Landry

Lawrence Edward Troan

David Keith Lawrence

Colin G Walters

Vincent Batts

David Lawrence Cantrell, Jr

Disclosed herein is technology to capture and distribute a state of a file system that updates, removes, or adds a computer program to a computing device. An example method may include: analyzing a program package associated with a plurality of objects of a computer program; determining a state of a file system after an installation of the program package; generating a manifest that corresponds to the computer program and represents the state of the file system after the installation, the manifest comprising a hash tree that comprises object identification data of an object of the plurality of objects of the computer program; and providing the manifest to one or more computing devices.

Distributing file system states

Component based dynamic guest instantiation is disclosed. For example, a memory stores a content store, and a virtualization engine executes on one or more processors to receive a request to launch an application that is configured to execute in a guest. A file system of the guest is constructed based on metadata associated with the application. A plurality of components of the application, including a first component defined in the metadata, are loaded to the file system from the content store. The first application is launched in the guest.

Component based dynamic guest instantiation

System and method for verifying compatibility of computer equipment with a software product. A system and method are provided to verify compatibility of computer equipment with software. This verification can include gathering information about configurations of the computer equipment, and creating at least one file based on the information. The file or files coordinate testing of the computer equipment. The testing produces results that can be stored and analyzed or evaluated. The results can be contained in a file or a plurality of files. The results provide a description of the configurations in addition to an indication of whether the testing has produced any failures. The configuration descriptions or parts thereof can be stored in a configuration database that can be used to apply credit against future testing of computer equipment so that future testing needs can be reduced.

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Willard Woods