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Date of Patent:
Jan. 07, 2020

Filed:

Jan. 30, 2017
Applicant:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Inventors:

Mauro Arcese, Rome, IT;

Giuseppe Ciano, Rome, IT;

Claudio Marinelli, Latina, IT;

Luigi Pichetti, Rome, IT;

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/44 (2018.01); G06F 8/61 (2018.01); G06F 8/65 (2018.01); G06F 21/55 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 8/63 (2013.01); G06F 8/61 (2013.01); G06F 8/65 (2013.01); G06F 21/554 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method and system for creating a software image of a software application. The software application is installed on a computing machine. One or more changes of the computing machine resulting from the installation of the software application are detected. The one or more changes include one or more artifacts being added to the computing machine and one or more updates being applied to the computing machine. One or more activation procedures and activation information according to the updates are determined. The activation procedures are configured to apply the updates when running the activation procedures according to the activation information. The software image are created by copying the artifacts from the computing machine to a virtual disk and by adding the activation procedures and the activation information obtained from the activation procedures to the virtual disk.


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