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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 23, 2019
Filed:
Jan. 25, 2018
Amazon Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA (US);
Anthony Nicholas Liguori, Bainbridge Island, WA (US);
Matthew Shawn Wilson, Seattle, WA (US);
Ian Paul Nowland, Seattle, WA (US);
AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES, INC., Seattle, WA (US);
Abstract
Generally described, aspects of the present disclosure relate to loading an updated virtual machine monitor on the physical computing device during a boot process. The updated virtual machine monitor may be loaded from an update manager external to the virtual machine monitor, such as the offload device or a server connected with the physical computing device over a network. In certain embodiments, the updated virtual machine monitor may be loaded in a tiered process by first loading a startup virtual machine monitor, which automatically updates by loading the updated virtual machine monitor. The startup virtual machine monitor may be a virtual machine monitor with less functionality than the updated machine manager, such as where the startup virtual machine monitor may be a 'lite' or simple virtual machine monitor while the updated virtual machine monitor may be a fully functional virtual machine monitor of the most recent update or version.